POLITICAL 

DI.CTIONAR  Y 

EXPLAINING    THE 

TRUE  MEANING  OF  WORDS. 

ILLUSTRATED    A-ND    EXEMPLIFIED    IN    THE 

LIVES,    MORALS,    CHARACTER    AND 

O  F     ,T  H  S      F  O  L,L  O  W  I  H 

MOST  ILLUSTRIOUS 


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The  King,  Queen,  Prince  of  Wales,  Duk«  of  York,  ;Pope 
Pius  VI.  Emperor,  King  of  Pruflia,  the  Tigrefs  of  Ruflia. 
Duk"s  of  Brunfwick,  Portland,  Richmond,  'Newcaflle,  .Lee4s. 
Earls  Chatham,  Fitzwilliam,  Darlington,  Spencer,,  Ho  we,  Chef- 
terfield.  ;I,ords  Grenville,  Mornin^ton,  JVIoira,  Mountmovris, 
Mulgrave,  Fitzgerald,  Harvey.  Judges  Kenyon  and  v-ougnbo- 
rough.  Hon.  Frank  North.  .Sirs  George  Saville,  ,Cilbert 
Elliot,  Francis  Molyneux,  Waikin  Lewes,  Roger  ,  Curtis, 
Sidney  Smythe.  .Francis  Sykes.  Richard  ,Hill.  Landgrave  .of 
HefTe  Caffel.  Madam  Schwellenbergcn.  Medrs.  :Pirr.,  ^ox. 
Burke,  Dumourier,  Warren  Haftingg,  Wyndham,  Powis,  J>unda§, 
Thornton,  Wilberforce,  Reeves,  Arthur  Young,  George  Hanger, 
Charles  jenkinfon,  Colonel  Tarleton,  3rook  Wattbn,^Aldermefx 
Curtis,  Anderfon,  Le  Msfurier,  ^anderfon.  "JJilhqps  mt!. 
.Ciergy.  Charles  I.  and  .Louis  XVI, 


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P  I  G  O  T  T's 

POLITICAL  DICTIONARY, 


A  BSURDITY — Mr.  Pitt's  furplus 
JL\.  fund,  his  Majefty's  civil-lift,  and 
the  combination  of  kings,  to  reftore 
priefthood,  ariftocracy,  and  monarchy  in 
France. 

Ahufe.  The  different  governments 
of  Europe  ;  privileged  orders  ;  church 
eftablifhments. 

Adam.  The  only  man  of  his  time,  a 
true  Sans  Culottes,  and  the  firft  revolu- 
tiomft. 

Addrefs.  An  echo  of  venal  proflitu- 
tion;  an  infidioas,  miniflerial  trap  to 
catch  popularity,  never  to  be  truilcd. 

Admiralty.  An  office  of  the  firfl  re- 
fponiibility,  requiring  the  grcatell  talents, 
,  and  experience,  in  the  man 

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whoprefides  over  it.}    filledby  an  IDEOT, 
beetle  h&  :hUf)£ejri£    to   be  brother  to  a 
PRIME -NflMSTJER. 
A  :  if&ftfatAgCi  :  The  evacuation  of  Tou- 
•  **4©iV;: -the  '  retreat    from     Dunkirk  t     the 
French   triumphant    matters    of  the  fea; 
and  Earl  Moira's  expedition  to  the  coaft 
of  Britanny. 

Alarm.  The  tocfin  of  dehifion ; 
plunging  Englishmen  into  all  the  cala- 
mities of  war,  under  the  falfell  pretence 
of  their  liberties  and  properties  being 
endangered,  to  cover  fche  real  defigns  of 
hatred,  j.caloufy,  defpotifm,  and  revenge. 
A  pretext  for  profecutions,  unconHitu- 
tional  augmentation  of  the  army,  the  in- 
troduction of  foreign  troops,  barracks, 
&c.  &c.  &c. 

Alarmifts.  Miferable  politicians^  who 
have  been  dupes  of  the  found,  terrified 
by  the  downfal  of  ariftocracy  in  France ; 
bewildered  by  apprehenlions  and  fears 
for  themfelves,  they  have  loft  all  fenfe  of 
their  duty  towards  the  people,  and  have 
jo1  *ied  the  confpiracy  of  courts  againft 
the  interests  of  humanity.  For  example, 
Duke  of  Portland,  Earls  Fitzwilliatn, 


POLITICAL      DICTIONARY.          5 

Spencer,  Me  firs.  Wind  ham,  Powis,  and 
a  lift  of  et  ceteras,  ad  infimtum. 

Alderman.  Stupidity,  gluttony,  fer~. 
vility,  avarice;  perfectly  reprefented  in 
the  perfons  of  MclT.  Curtis,  Andcrfon, 
Le  Meflieur,  and  Sanderfon;  turtle  feaft- 
iag,  &c.  &c. 

Ally  (new.)     George   III.    Pope   Pius 

America.  A  bright  and  immortal  ex- 
ample to  all  colonies  groaning  under  a 
foreign  yoke,  proving  the  invincible 
energy  and  virtue  of  Freedom,  and  en- 
joying a  ftate  of  profperity,  fince  fhe 
has  thrown  off  her  dependence  on  Great- 
Britain,  hitherto  unknown  in  the  nations 
of  Europe. 

Ambaffador.  A  privileged  fpy  ;  a  genu- 
ine reprefentative  of  royalty. 

Ambition.  An-  irreiiftible  ftimulus  to( 
ferfonal  aggrandizement ;  a  rage  for  for- 
eign conquefls,  fovereign  contempt  for 
public  calamity,  and  an  everlasting  attach- 
ment to  courts. 

Ankerftrom.  A  generous  TYRANNICIDE 
equal  if  not  fuperior  to  BRUTUS. 

Apathy.  A  word  charadteriftic  of  modern 
Britons. 

Apoftate.     One  who  barters  his  politi- 


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cal  principles  for  a  fum  of  money,  for  a 
penfion,  a  place,  or  a  greater;  Dumourier, 
Pitt,  Burke,  Moira,  and  other  great  men. 

Argument.  Proclamation,  manifeftoes, 
Newgate,  fine,  pillory,  BOTANY  BAY. 

Ariftocrat.  A  fool,  a  fcoundrel,  gene- 
rally both  ;  a  monfter  of  rapacity,  and  an 
enemy  to  mankind. 

Armv  (ftandi-ng}.  An  engine  employed 
in  monarchies,  by  which  nations  areenflav- 
ed.  Dalrymple  obferves,  that  <(  flavery 
follows  a  Handing  army,  as  fure  as  the 
lhadow  follows  the  body." 

Afs.  A  beaft  of  burthen.  The  cele- 
brated naturalift  Buffon  fays,  that  an  afs 
is  the  moft  patient  of  all  animals  ;  but  the 
philofopher  had  never  read  the  hiftory  of 
JOHN  BULL. 

Affcrtion.  The  king's  fpeech  on  open-" 
ing  the  feflions  of  Parliament,,  1 794 ;  the 
account  of  brilliant  fuccefTes  obtained  by: 
the  combined  powers  ;  the  Britifh  Conlli- 
tution,  the  chef  d'ceuvre  of  perfection,  the 
envy  and  admiration  of  the  whole  world; 
the  inexhauftible  refources,  and  unprece- 
dented proiperity  of  England  /  themadnefs 
of  reform ;  the  neceflity  of  carrying  on  the 
war ,  and,  finally,  the  virtue  of  Mr.  Pkt 
and  his  adminift ration, 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.  7 

Affectation.     The  meaning  of  this  word 
has  lately   undergone    a   revolution.       In 
former  times  it  was  deemed  legal  for  Eng- 
limmen   to  aflbciate,  for  the   purpofe  of 
difcufling  political    principles   and   their 
own  rights.  Such  meetings  were  once  held 
constitutional  and  meritorious  ;  Pitt,    the 
Duke  of  Richmond,  and  other  Friends  of 
the  People,  were  the  chief  fupporters  of 
them.     Now  government  deems  them  un- 
conftitutional  and/editions,  and  the  afTbci- 
ators  ftand  a  good  chance  of  being  confined 
four  years  in  Newgate,  or,  if  in  Scotland, 
of  being  loaded  with  irons,  and  tranfported 
to  Botany  Bay.     Neverthelefs,  on  the  other 
hand,  aiTbciations  are  formed  under  the  im- 
mediate fandion  of  this  very  identical  Pitt, 
for  the  fuppreflkm  ofthefe  once  conftitu- 
tional meetings,  and/^/j  aflbciators  are   re- 
garded by  him   as  the  only  true  loyalifts, 
the  beft  friends  to   their  country.        Sir 
George     Saville      was     a     diftinguifhed 
member   of  the  firft    affociations  ;    Mr. 
Reeves,  a  placeman,  the  Prince  of  Spies 
and  Informers,  is  at  the  head  of  the  >atter. 
It  remains  forfober-minded  men  to  deter- 
mine, on  which  fide  the  truth  lies ;  it  is  for 
them  to  judge,  between  a  common  hireling 
and   Sir  George  Saville,  the  PATRIOT  of 


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Fiisday.-  Other  aflbciations  are  alfo/r/V?/y 
legal 3  and  warmly  countenanced  by  a  ge- 
nerous ariftocracy  ;  fuch,  for  example 
a:re  united  for  the  prefervation  of  game,  and 
for  bringing  to  condign  punifnment  the 
guilty  culprit  who'1  fhall*  have  dared  to  kill  a 
hate  or  pheafant,that  laid  vvafte  his  half  rood 
£>£  gaKlen^nd  deftroyed  its  produce,mtend- 
ed  for  the  fupport  of  himfelf  and  family. 

Attornies*  A  fet  of  mifcrcants  (for  the 
Mo  it  part  Jin1  rapacity  and  crueky  inferior 
to  noneybutthojfe  who  excrcifc  a-jurifdic- 
6&  over  them.* 

Author.  Duke  of  Leeds;  Lord  Mount- 
fnorres ;  Honourable  Frank  North ;  George 
lianger.- 

B. 

Sdlartce  6f  poi&er.  A  catch-\v:ord  that 
incites-  nations  to  war ;  the  politician's 
d?ea^m^  a1  word  now  falling  into  difufe, 
its4  fallacy  being  detected. 

,-     A  proof  of  national  prof- 
^  the  advantages  refulting  from  our 
France.  Vide  Dundas's  fpeeches, 
Pstrlkinentary  Regifter. 

Bargain*  Miniflerial  loans;  Brook 
Wa'tfon's  contract ;  2oo,o«ol.  a  year  fub- 
^idiz^d  to  the  King  of  Sardinia,  to  enable 
fern  to  defend  his  own  dominions  ;  fublidits 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.  9 

to  the  Elector  of  Hanover  and  the  Land- 
grave ofHelTe  CaiTcl;  a  penfion  of  1500!. 
per  annum  to  the  Jefuit  of  St.  Omer's ; 
the  pecuniary  douceur  granted  to  Sir 
Gilbert  Elliot,  for  his  fer vices  at  Toulon,, 
&c.  &c. 

Baronet.     Sir  Francis  Molyneux. 

Barrifter.  Loquacity,  impudence,  pre- 
furnption,  vanity,  confequence,  fophiftry, 
inconfiftency,  and  felf-intereft.  Garrow. 

Baflille.  Newgate  ;  New  Prifon,  Cold- 
bath-fields,  finifhed  under  the  SPECIAL  DI- 
RECTION of  Mr.  PITT. 

Beggars.  National  profpcrity  !  (Spi- 
taliields)  (ruined  manufactures). 

Bijbop.     A  wolf  in  (heep's  cloathing. 

Blindnefs.  The  Englifli  nation  ;  c  none 
are  fo  blind  ^s  thofe  that  won't  fee.' 

Bomhaft.  Lord  Grenville,  and  Pitt's- 
fpeeches,  Vide  Parliamentary  Regifler. 

Boxing.  A  fafhionable  amufement, 
lately  in  great  vogue,  and  chiefly  patro- 
nifed  by  Princes  of  the  bload,  and  Nobles  of 
ihe  realm. 

Braggadocio.  Colonel  Tarleton,  Sir 
Watkin  Lewes,  Sir  Roger  Curtis,  Sir  Sid- 
ney Smythe. 

Bvafs .     D  u  ndi " . 

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Bravery.  The  Royal  Dunkirk  Herey. 
Lord  Mulgrave,  Earl  Howe. 

Briton.     Slave. 

Briton,  (True)  a  minifterial  newfpaper 
fynonymous  for  true  informer,  defpotifm,. 
lies,  felf-intereft,  and  corruption. 

Briinfwick,  (Duke  of)  the  victorious  hero 
who  threatened  to  exterminate  twenty- 
five  millions  of  people,  if  they  did  not 
fubmit  to  his  arbitrary  conditions  ;  and 
who,  in  lefs  than  a  fortnight  afterwards, 
was  completely  routed  and  put  to 
flight,  by  a  few  volunteers  of  the  above 
people. 

Brutality.  Thief-takers  :  the  keepers 
and  turn  keys  of  goals.  A  judge  patting 
fentenceofDEATHagamft  a. youthful  convict 
not  fourteen  years  old,  for  STEALING  FIVE 
SHILLINGS.  The  late.  Earl  of  Lincoln, 
now  Duke  of  Newcaftle,  profecutinga 
countryman  for  killing  a  hare  on  hiseflatc, 
and  afterwards  declaring,  on  being  told 
the  magiftrates  had  only  condemned  the 
man  for  fix  months  imprifonment  in  the 
county-goal,  that  had  he  known  the  fen- 
tence  would  have  been  fo  mild,  he  would 
have  profecuted  him  in  the  Exchequer, 
when  he  might  have  been  able  to  tranf- 
pcrt  the  culprit  to  IV-  Bay.  The 


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Lord  Advocate  of  Scotland's  fpeech  in 
the  Englifh  Houfe  of  Commons,  on  the 
cafe  of  Muir  and  Palmer.  The  amufe- 
ments  of  Princes  and  nobles  ;  boxing, 
cock  fighting,  hunting  down  hares,  (hoot- 
ing Partridges,  woodcocks,  &c.  &c.  dray- 
men abufing  their  draft  horfes,  and  the 
Earl  of  Darlington,  a  young  NOBLEMAN, 
poflefling  50,000!.  a-year,  riding  one  ge- 
nerous animal  fixty  miles  in  fix  hours,  and 
thereby  cauling  the  horfe's  death  !  Qucre, 
Which  be  the  greater  brute,  his  lorJmip 
or  the  horfe  ? 

Budget.  New  taxes  ;  an  increafe  of  in- 
fluence to  the  Crown,  and  of  mifery  to  the 
poor. 

Bully.  Lord  Hervey,  Lord  Robert 
Fitzgerald,  the  Britifh  Envoys  at  Florence 
and  Berne. 

Burden.     A  civil  lift,  a  ftanding  army. 

Butchery.  A  regiment  of  Englifh  mi- 
litia, at  the  command  of  their  officers, 
firing  on  their  countrymen,  the  unarmed 
Inhabitants  of  Briftol^when  a  number  of 
men,  women,  and  children  were  killed. 
C. 

Calumny.  Uniform  abufe  and  exag- 
gerated falfehoods  againft  the  French. 

Candour.     Karl    Meira,   on  his 


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from  oppolition  to  adminiflration;  Pitt 
fupporting  the  ncceffity  for  extending 
the  prerogative  of  the  Crown,  and  juf- 
tifyin-g  himfelf  for  keeping  up  and  en- 
larging the  fyftem  of  corruption,  which 
fee  had  formerfy  pledged  himfelf  toabolifh. 

Cannon.'  The  only  argument  of  con- 
f  icftiori  to  dcfpots.' 

Chancery.-  A  tribunal  which  profeflesr 
fo  have  no  other  object  in  view  than  the 
ilriclefl  equity;  an  office  requiring  the 
moil  incorruptible  honour  and  integrity, 
but  which  is  generally  filled  by  the  vileft 
tools- and  lycophants  of  power,  and,  in- 
Head  of  being  a  fa'ithful  admimflration 
of  ipeedy  and  impartial  juftice,  is  pro- 
verbial for  its  extortion  and  delays.  This 
<6fficc  is  generally  allotted  as  a  reward  for 
apoftacy, 

Cba6s<  Confufion  ;  the  Britifh  confti- 
tutiony  King,  Lords,  and  Commons. 

Charity*  Enormous  contributions  for 
French  rebels  ;  an  utter  neglect  of  our 
Own  poon 

Chafiityj  (^ertu  unique]  Queen  Char- 
lotte. 

Cburcbj  A  patent  for  hypocrify  ;  the 
tefuge  of  floth,  ignorance  and  fupertliti- 
on,  the  corner-ftone  of  tyranny. 


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Citizen.  The  moft  honourable  of  titles ; 
the  definition  of  a  virtuous  man. 

Clemency.  The  court  of  King's-bench ; 
the  court  of  Judiciary  in  Scotland. 

Client.  An  unfortunate  viclim  to  ill- 
placed  con  dence,  to  the  rapacity  and 
plunder  of  lawyers, 

Coalition.-  An  union  of  parties,  when 
monopoly  on  either  fide  is  impoflible^ 
and  when  the  principle  itfelf  is  threaten- 
ed, to  defend  and  divide  the  loaves  and 
fifhesv 

Cock  (game),  A  fanguinary,  cruel  ty- 
rant. Vide  the  bill  of  indictment  pre- 
ferred againll  D.  I.  Eaton  ;  where  the 
Attorney-General  compares  a  game-cock 
to  a  cruel,  fanguinary  tyrant,  and  fays, 
that  it  muft  mean  our  moft  gracious  Sove- 
reign GEO.  III. 

Company ,  (Eaft  India)-- -Chartered  rob^ 
bers,  licenfed  murderers,  fending  out 
military  ruffians  to  conquer,  plunder,  and 
defolate  the  remoteli  countries. 

Confidence.  A  word  employed  by  flatcf- 
men,  in  order  to  preferve  their  power, 
and  enflave  a  nation  to  their  yoke. 

Confequence.  Pitt,/////  drej)'edy  furround- 
cd  by  his  myrmidons  on  the  Treafury^ 
bench* 


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Covjiftency.      MeJTrs.     Fox,    G rattan, 
&c.  &c. 

Conftitution.  A  code  of  laws,  founded 
in  principles  of  equal  rights,  a  id  general 
happinefs,  fuch  as  Kenyon  and  Afburft 
define  that  of  England,  but  \vhich  their 
practice  proves  directly  the  reverfe. 

Contractors.  A  fet  of  men  who  are 
known  to  live  in  luxury  on  the  plunder  of 
the  ignorant,  the  innocent,  and  the  help- 
lefs  ;  upon  that  part  of  the  community 
which  Hands  moil  in  need  of  and  bed  de- 
ferves  the  care  and  protection  of  the  legif- 
lature.  In  all  Minifterial  contracts >  it  is 
never  a  queflion  of  making  a  profitable 
bargain  for  the  public  •  the  only  object  is 
to  enrich  the  CONTRACTOR,  who  is  always 
a  creature  of  the  Miniftcr.  Brook  Wat- 
Ton,  &c.  &c.  &c. 

Contraft.  The  invincible  ardour,  the 
independent  fpirit  of  a  FRENCH  RE- 
PUBLICAN ;  the  tame  fervility,  the 
fawning  fycophancy  of  a  Britifo  courtier  ; 
the  RIGHTS  OF  MAN,  by  THOMAS  PAIN::  ; 
the  libel  on  the  human  race,  by  the  Right 
Honourable  Edmund  Burke ;  the  manifeitoes 
of  tyrants,  the  anfwers  of  freemen,  the 
impudent  ajferiicns  of  Grem'ille  or  Maxs- 


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field  ;  theiRRESISTIBLETRUTHS  of  STAN- 
HOPE ;  a  convention  of  the  people,  a  par- 
liament of  ariftocracy. 

Corporation.  An  infamous  relic  of  the 
ancient  feudal  fyftem  ;  a  tyrannical,  ex- 
clufive  monopoly,  generally  confirming  of 
gluttons,  idiots,  and  opprefibrs  ;  brutes 
in  a  human  form. 

Corruption.    "  The  oil  which  makes  the 
wheels   of    Government  go  well."     Vide\ 
Arthur   Young's  Example   of  France,   a 
Warning  to  Britain,  p.   191. 

Courtier.  Duke  of  Montrofe,  Lords 
Chcfterfield,  Elgin,  Sidney,  Rivers,  On- 
flow, &c.  &c.  &c.  A  fycophant. 

Court.  The  dunghill  that  breeds  the 
above  vermin  ;  the  focus  that  confumes 
the  mduftry  and  labour  of  the  people. 
Halifax,  himfelf  a  courtier,  ftiles  it  a  den 
of  well  fed,  well  drefled  beggars. 

Cowardice.  Military  ruffians  affaulting 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Knox,  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ter, at  the  Brighthelmfron  theatre. 

Crown.  A  jewel  that  dazzles  the  eye 
of  the  vulgar  by  its  extenfive  fplendor  ; 
the  gewgaw  and  pageantry  which  it  dif- 
plays,  reconciles  the  nation  to  a  bauble 
which  colls  a  million  annually  to  fupport, 


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drained  from  the  virtue  of  induftry,  and 
the  fvveat  of  labour.  Partial  fplendour, 
public  calamity. 

Cruelty.  Lord  Hood  commanding  a 
man  of  war  filled  with  helplefs  pnfoners 
to  be  funk  ;  the  horrors  perpetrated  oil 
men  and  women  in  La  Vendee  by  rebels 
fighting  aprainft  the  liberties  of  their  na-r 
tive  councry  ;  criminal  laws  that  inflicl: 
capital  punifhment  for  trivial  offences  ;> 
the  SLAVE  TRADE. 

D 

Dagger.  A  figure  in  rhetoric,  unknown 
to  ancient  and  modern  orators,  till  the 
days  of  Mr.  Edmund  Burke,  to  whofe 
pointed  genius  we  are  indebted  for  the  dif- 
covery. 

Damien.  A  virtuous  afTaflin,  who  aim- 
ed an  abortive  blow  at  the  life  of  a  tyrant 
(Louis  XV.)  who  by  his  prodigality  and 
brutal  vices  had  fcattered  famine  far  and 
wide  over  his  country,  and  corrupted  the 
morals  of  a  \vhole  people.  Damien  un- 
derwent the  mod  ihidied  and  excruciating 
tortures ;  his  eye-balls  were  torn  out ; 
hot  boiling  lead,  drop  by  drop  was  poured 
into  their  fockets,  and  every  refinement  of 
the  ciuelieft  invention  praclifed  on  his 


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Wangled  body  ;  and  for  what  ?  for  an  inef- 
fevhial  attempt  to  rid  the  world  of  a  moa- 
ner, who  every  day  of  his  life  was  the 
caufe  of  mifery  and  death  to  thouiands. 
D-imein  expired  on  the  bed-  of  torture. 
The  other  was  fuffercd  to  die  in  peace  on 
a  bed  of  Mate  ;  but  after  death,  the  people 
could  not  be  retrained  from  venting  their 
execration,  and  pointing  their  wrath 
again  ft  his  putrid  Royal  corpfe. 

Death.  The  grand  leveller  of  human 
difrinctions.-  Armed  with  his  dreadful 
fcymitar,  he  mows  down  princes  and  pea- 
fants  indifcriminately  •  but  he  is  partial 
to  forrow  and  misfortune,,  vifiting  the 
v/retched  under  "their  afflictions,  and  re- 
lieving them  from  all  their  troubles,  while 
at  the  very  fame  inftant  he  will  hurl  a  ty- 
rant, in  the  plenitude  of  omnipotence, 
from  his  throne,  and  level  the  conqueror 
of  worlds  in  the  duft.  He  will  (land  in- 
vifibie  at  the  elbow  of  Kings,  \vhen  they 
are  meditatirig  the  moil  wafteful  and  un- 
bounded fchemes  of  ambition  and  con- 
queft,  the  flavery  of  their  own  fubjcdrs, 
and  the  extermination  of  diftarit  empires. 
Death  in  an  inftant  blafts  their  infernal 
projects,  and  fends  them  to  their  account,, 
•with  all  their  enormities  on  their 


18  PIGOTT'S 

Debauchery.  Carlton-houfe,  Kempfhot. 
The  Dunkirk  Hero  in  a  fit  of  intoxication 
at  three  o'clock  in  the  morning  at  a 
brothel,  furrounded  by  half  a  dozen  prof- 
titutes,  watching  a  favourable  opportunity 
to  pick  his  pocket. 

Scene  in  W-t-n's  Berkeley-dreet. 

Debt  (National)  Politicians  defcribe 
the  immenfity  of  our  public  debt  as  the 
lured  proof  of  our  profperity.  Philofophers 
lament  it,  as  the  caufe  of  unparalleled  tax- 
ation and  poverty  to  the  people. 

Degeneracy.     Old  England. 

Deluflon.  The  ruling  principle  and  lad 
furviving  hope  of  the  Britifh  Cabinet. 

Democrat.  One  who  maintains  the  rights 
of  the  people;  an  enemy  to  privileged 
orders,  and  all  monarchical  encroachments, 
the  advocate  of  peace,  ceconomy  and  re- 
form. Aridotle  affirms  that  liberty  can 
never  flourilh  out  of  a  democracy.  Mon- 
tefquieu  calls  it  the  nurfery  of  virtue. 

Dif content  (Popular).  In  the  aridocra- 
tic  dictionary,  fedition.  When  people, 
vexed  and  goaded  by  oppreflion,  exprefs 
difcontent,  aridocracy  deems  it  fedi- 
tion. The  judges  tell  them  they  have 
no  right  to  complain ;  things  can  net 


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be  better,  and  the  law  finally  con- 
demns them  to  the  pillory,  fine,  and 
two  years  confinement  in  one  of  his 
Majefty's  Baftillesy  there  to  learn  patience, 
refignation,  and  lubmiflion.  The  word 
will  alfo  admit  of  another  conftruclion. 
ft  When  popular  difcontents  have  been 
<f  very  prevalent,  it  may  fafely  be  affirmed 
cf  that  there  has  been  fomething  amifs  in 
"  the  conftitution,  or  in  the  conduct  of  Go- 
Cf  vernment."  Rurke's  Thoughts  on  the 
Caufe  of  the  Prefent  Diicontents.  Mr. 
Burke's  opinion  has  fince  undergone  a 
complete  revolution. 

Dif appointment .  Our  Royal  Dunkirk 
Hero  railing  the  fiege  of  that  place,  reduced 
to  the  neceffity  of  leaving  his  artillery  be- 
hind, arid  of  faving  himfelf  by  a  precipi- 
tate flight  ;  the  evacuation  of  Toulon, 
and  the  recovery  of  King  George  III.  in 
the  year  1789. 

Dijintereftednefs.  The  rapacity  of  cour- 
tiers, increating  with  the  di&reffes  of  their 
country  ;  Lord  Grenville  accepting  the 
Auditorfhip  of  the  Exchequer,  a  finecure 
yielding  ten  thoufand  a  year,  while  the 
nation  is  almoft  reduced  to  beggary  ;  and 
Lord  Loughborough  giving  up  the  Com- 
mon Pleas  for  the  Seal,  at  a  time  when,  on 


2O  F    I    G    O    T    T  >  S 

an  Average,  there  was  not  more  than  fifty 
commifTions  of  bankruptcy  ligned  per 
week,  and  when  the  profits  of  each  coin- 
mi  fiion  to  his  Lordihip  did  not  exceed 
FIFTEEN  POUNDS. 

Dijjtmvlation.  An  art  in  which  Kings- 
excel.  The  late  Louis  Capet,  King  of 
France,. fell  a  viclim  to  the  fatal  Ikill  with 
which  he  practifed  its  refinements.  There 
£.re  other  Kings  frill  greater  adepts  in  the 
art,  and  who  continue  to  praclife  it  with 
incredible  fuccefs,  although  it  is  not  mo- 
illy  impofliblc  but  a  fimilar  fate  may 
i  nallybefal  them.  Pafts  and  prayers >  all 
the  external  canf-oi  religion,  are  attributes 
of  diffimulation.  Halifax  itiles  it  cc  a^ 
€( jewel  in  the  crown." 

Divinity >•  The  Bench  of  Bifhops  uni- 
formly voting  in  their  capacity  as  legifla- 
tors,  againfl  the  maxims  of  the  gofpel,  in 
fupport  of  war  and  extermination. 

Drunkennefs .  Meflrs.  Pitt  and  Dundas, 
when  fo  intoxicated  with  liquor,  as  not  to 
be  able  to  articulate  their  words,  engaging 
a  vaft  majority  in  the  Houfe  of  Commons 
to  precipitate  their  country  into  a  war 
w?ith  France  ;  the  feflivities  of  Brighton, 
Hoi vv  cod,  Wimbledon,  Gordon  Houfe, 
Dowmng-ftreet ;  the  Duke  of  Norfolk 


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Drinking  common  gin  with  the  Royal  Sove** 
reign,  at  her  lodgings  in  Strand-lane. 

Dullnefs.  Poet  Jerningham's  tragedy  / 
the  liege  of  Berwick ;  Lady  Wallace's 
comedy  /  Mrs.  Robinfon's  novels  ;  the 
;Houfe  of  Peers ;  fafhionable  routs  ;  Mon- 
sieur Le  Texier's  Readings  ;  and  their 
Mujeftics'  private  parties. 

Dunce.     Lord  Grcnville,  Tom  St— le, 
Colonel  Cawthorne,  &c.  &c. 
E. 

Effeminacy.  A  word,  the  meaning  of 
•which  was  once  illuftrated  by  the  French 
nation,  till  the  noble  fpirit  of  republican- 
ifm  deftroyed  the  ancient  charad:er,  and 
gave  birth  to  thofe  prodigies  of  heroifm 
and  magnanimity,  that  at  prefent  juftly 
rank  -it  the  firit  nation  of  the  earth.  Ef- 
feminacy is  now  perfectly  well  defcribed 
in  Fop's  Alley,  at  our  Opera  Houfe  in  the 
Haymarket,by  the  defcendants  ofHamp- 
den,  Sidney,  RufTel,  and  other  Rritifh 
patriots.  The  two  nations  have  under- 
gone a  complete  revolution  of  character. 
Regeneration  and  degeneracy. 

Emigrant  (Englifh).  One  who,  like 
Dr.  Prieilly  or  Thomas  Cooper,  is  com- 
pelled to  fly  from  perfecutioii,  and 


22  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

liberty  in  a  far  diilant  land,  probably 
America,  theftates  of  Europe,  for  the  moft 
part,  France  excepted,  being  rank  defpo- 
tifms.  The  late  dreadful  punifhments 
that  have  been  inflidted  under  the  fanclion 
of  a  government  falling  it/elf  free  ;  the 
reftriftions  impofed  upon  citizens,  the  in- 
tolerable and  ftill  increaiing  taxes,  the  fo- 
reign armies  that  have  been  landed,  and 
the  military  barracks  erected  throughout 
the  country,  have  produced  an  extraordi- 
nary effect  on  the  public  mind,  and  threaten 
fuch  an  emigration  as  ought  to  create  the 
moft  ferious  appreheniions.  When  Mr. 
Pitt  \vas  called  into  power,  the  death- 
warrant  of  Old  England's  remaining 
liberties,  and,  with  them,  of  her  great- 
nefs,  was  figned.  It  were  prepofterous 
to  fuppofc,  whenever  peace  mall  be  cfbu 
blimed,  that  induflry  and  labour  will  de- 
vote their  fervices  to  an  old,  exhaufted, 
worn-out  fyilem,  working  its  own  difio- 
lution,  and  which  is  only  preferved  in  its 
prefent  rotten  flate  by  an  immenfity  of 
impofr.,  that  robs  the  virtues  by  which 
alone  it  is  kept  from  mortification;  while 
new  conlrjtutions,  UN  TAX  ED,  with  every 
advantage  of  climate,  and  al 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.         2J 

tible  charms  of  freedom,  fhall  invite  them 
to  emigration.       England,  thy  Sun  is  fet. 
Emigrant  (French).     One  who  flies  his 
country  flruggling  for  freedom,  and   be- 
comes its  enemy;  who  enlifts  under  a  fo- 
reign banner  to  fight  againft  it.  One  who 
labours  by  treafon  and  mafTacre   to  revive 
that  ancient  dcfpotifm,  under   which    fo 
many  millions  of   vidlims  were  born  with- 
out hope,  and  perifhed    through   want,  but 
under  which,  he  himfelf  enjoyed  all  the 
milk  and  honey  of  the  land.  One  who  leaves 
his  wife,  his  children,  and  every  thing  that 
ihculd  be  moft  dear  and  facred  to  him,  in 
the  hands  of  his  enemies,  and  who  hopes 
to  deliver  them  by  fword,  by  fire,  and  by- 
famine  ;  \\  ho  finds  it  unjuft  that  thefe  ene- 
mies (his  countrymen,  whom  he  has  aban- 
doned)  mould  feize  his  effects,  and   treat 
him    with    rigour,  although  he    publicly 
avows,  that  ihould  he  himfelf  be    victori- 
ous, he  Will  ihcw  grace  and  indulgence  to 
none.     One  who  complains  alfo,  that  the 
foreigners,  on  whole    ferviccs   he  relies, 
have  the  moft  interefted  and  venal  views, 
although  at    the    fame  time  he  confefles 
that  thefe  foreigners  o\ved  no  obligation 
to  him,  and  that  they  ail  had  ever  been  th--> 
fecret  enemies  of  his  country,  ccc. 


:24  P    1    G    O    T     T'VS 

Enemy  ( nat u ral ) .  National  enmities  have 
been  always  produced  and  .encouraged  by 
kingly  and  prieflly  policy.  The  wolf  is 
the  natural  enemv  of  the  'lamb ;  the  vulture 
.-of  the  dove.  By  inftintJ  ibey  are  fo.  cl bey 
miift  live  ;  but  one  people  can  never  be  the 
natural  enemy  of  another  ;  u.nlefs  we  con- 
lider  mankind  in  the  fame  ia-vage  light  as 
the  vulture  and  the  wolf.  A  nation  is  no 
more  than  a  member  of  that  large  family, 
the  human  race,  and  can  only  ftourifh  in 
proportion  with  the  felicity  and  welfare 
of  the  whole.  What  greater  abfurdity 
can  be  imagined,  than -that  a  people  who 
owe  all  their  profpcnty  to  commerce,  that 
is  to  fay,  to  their  connections  with  other 
people,  fhould  call  themfelves  the  natural 
enemy  of  this  or  of  that  people,  and  indeed 
of  every  thing  that  is  not  confined  within 
their  own  circle  !  Is  it  not  evident  that 
this  abominable  prejudice  is  kept  up  > 
gang  of  -plunder  rs  and  monopolisers,  ir, 
protection  of  CHURCH  and  STATE,  who 
find  their  advantage  and  emolument  in  it  ? 

Enquiry.  According  to  the  modern  con- 
flruction,  fignifks  Sedition.  In  the  old  En- 
gliih  dictionary,  it  was  held  a  CONSTITU- 
TIONAL PRIVILEGE,  derived  from  VT 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.        25 

CHARTA  and  the  BILL  of  RIGHTS,  for 
the  people  to  enquire  into  the  conduct  of 
Kings  or  M milters,  and  into  the  errors  of 
their  government ;  but  all  things  now 
feem  in  a  (late  of  revolution,  and  accord- 
ing to  Mr  Pitt's  new  code,  which  is  im- 
plicitly adopted  by  all  the  legal  courts 
through  the  three  kingdoms,  enquiry  im- 
plies difloyalty,  fedition,  or  treafon,  and 
they  who  are  audacious  enough  to  claim 
this  ancient  obfolete  privilege,  expofe 
thenafelves  to  the  penalties  of  fine,  pillory, 
or  imprifonment,  and  if  in  Scotland,  of 
tranfportation  for  fourteen  years  to  Bo- 
TANY  BAY.  The  people,  however,  begin 
to  murmur  at  the  revolution  that  the 
world  has  undergone,  and  to  think  this  is 
not  altogether  a  F&EE  country. 

Enterprise:     This  word  implies   judg- 
ment to  conceive  plans,  with  ability  and 
ikill  to  execute  them.    The  left  definition 
of  the  word  may  be  found  in  the   hiitory 
.  of  our  lad   campaign  againft  the  French 
jn  the  years  1793-94,  and    in  the   gallant 


Earl  Moirz's  projected  economical   expedi- 
tion to  the  coait  of  France. 

Equality.     In  the  Alarm/ft    vocabulary, 
everything  mdrafly  ».i;.l   ph,;i- 
^B 


26  PIGOTT'S 

cally  impofiible  ;  equal  wifdom,  equal 
jftrength,  equal  wealth,  &c.  but  equality 
truly  iignifics,  both  in  Trance  and  Eng- 
land, as  well  as  every  where  elfe,  EQUAL 
RIGHTS  ;  a  RIGHT  of  every  citizen,  not 
difquahficd  by  nature  or  by  crime,  to  the 
benefits  and  protection  of  fociety  ;  aright 
of  voting  for  the  election  of  thofe  who 
are  to  make  laws  by  which  he  himfelf  is 
to  be  bound  ;  by  which,  his  liberty,  his 
property,  and  his  life  are  affected,  and  an 
equal  right  of  exerting  to  advantage  the 
genius  and  talents  which  he  may  poflcfs— 
the  equal  rights  of  nations. 

Extermination.     The   principle  of  the 
war  in  which    the  combined  powers  are 

engaged    againfl    France  ; to     deftroy 

twenty-five  millions  of  people,  or  other- 
wife  to  force  on  them  ffcch  a  government^ 
as  thefe  combined  powers  in  their  clemency 
and  wifdom,  mall  approve  ;  fuch  is  the  war 
in  which  the  rulers  of  nations  have  in- 
volved their  fubjecls  ;  in  which,  already 
more  than  300,000  men  have  been  flaugh- 
tered,  during  the  courfe  of  two  campaigns  j 
neverthelefs,  thefe  horrible  maffacres- 
feein  only  to  have  increafed  the  fury> 
by  which  thefe  defpots  arc  ftimulatcd  j 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.  27 

anri  thus  myriads  of  innocent,  ignorant 
victims  ftili  continue,  without  reflection, 
to  obey  the  tyrants  order,  and  to  yield 
their  willing  throats  to  the  butcher's  knife. 
«f  Ye  gods,  what  havoc  does  ambition 
make  amongft  your  works.'* 

Pa  if  I  on.  In  its  primitive  fenfe,  figni- 
fies  mifchief,  conspiracy,  oppofition  to 
good  and  lawful  government;  likewifc 
Jecrct  cabals,  or  an  open  violent  conteft  be- 
tween two  unprincipled,  reftlefs,  rapa- 
cious parties,  for  a  monopoly  of  the  fpoils 
of  a  plundered  exhaufted  people.  In  ano- 
ther, that  is,  in  the  Minijlerial  fenfe,  fae~ 
tion  is  virtus  ;  but  a  virtus  liable  to  the 
heavieft  penalties  and  puniihments.  AiTo- 
ciations  of  citizens  peaceably  met  together 
fordifcuiling  the  abufes  of  Government, 
and  for  deliberating  on  the  fafefl  and  moil 
effectual  method  of  procuring  their  re- 
form ;  an  enquiry  into  the  meafures  of 
their  fervants  (the  Miniilers)  and  an  ex- 
ercife  of  thofe  privileges,  which  Englifh- 
men  were  taught  byfomeof  theferninif- 
ters  themfelves  to  believe  inherent  in  their 
free  conftitution,  are  now  conftruecl  into 
fa^lion,  and  thus,  the  word  is  polIeHed  of 
ti^o  different  fignification&. 


I 


28  PIGOTT'S 

Whether  Mr.  Pitt's  modern  reading,  or 
the  ancient  conflrudion  be  the  juft  one, 
wtfl  defers  es  the  ferious  confideration  of 
our  popular  f octettes  throughout  Great- 
Britain  and  Ireland,  who  would  ad:  wifely 
in  affording  to  their  heaven-born  Minifter, 
a  STRIKING  fpecimen  of  their  opinions 
on  the  fubjedt. 

Perhaps,  after  all,  the  moil  accurate 
definition  of  the  word  fafiion,  is  to  be 
found  in  the  coalition  between  alarmifts 
and  courtiers,  in  defence  of  Royal  preroga- 
tive, of  extravagant  finecures,  fupernu- 
merary  places,  and  unmerited  peniions  ;  as 
well  as  of  every  other  fpecies  of  corrupt 
influence,  againil  the  rights  and  liberties 
of  mankind ;  in  the  confederation  of 
Kings  agamft  the  independence  of  the 
French  Republic,  as  folemnly  ratified  by 
the  people,  through  the  organ  of  reprefen- 
tatives,  FAIRLY  and  CONSTITUTIONALLY 
elected  by  their  own  FREE  UNBOUGHT  fuf- 
frages. 

Faith.  Credulity,  fuperftition.  An 
article  loudly  extolled  and  vehemently  in- 
filled on,  in  all  ages,  by  PRIESTS  and 
KINGS.  Succefs  has  crowned  thdir  exer- 
tions. Mankind,  on  every  occaiion,  have 


POLITICAL   DICTIONARY.       39 

opened  a  gullet  wide  enough  to  f wallow  the 
abfurdeft  paradoxes,  the  inoil  glaring  im- 
podibilities.  Only  lay,  that  Cf  an  army 
of  foldiers  was  lecn  lafi  night  to  pafs  over 
the  moon/'  and  you  will  immediately  per- 
ceive a  vaft  legion  of  implicit  believers 
making  their  comments  and  remarks  on 
the  phenomenon^  explaining  it  on  the  au- 
thority of  fcriptural  prophecies.  Nothing 
too  prepoflerous  tor  popular  credulity, 
which  has  been  always  fed  and  cheriihed 
by  the  great  leaders  in  Church  and  Stale  ; 
knowing  this,  on  that  bails  only  their  em- 
pire depends.  Thus  have  nations  by  dint 
of  error  and  fuperftition,  for  a  vaft  luccef- 
iion  of  ages,  yielded  themfelves  up  to  the 
dominion  of  royal  or  priedly  authority, 
which,  in  moil  inilances,  have  formed  a 
coalition  for  the  purpofc,  whereby  the 
community  have  been  plunged  into  a  fa- 
thomlefs  abyfs  of  fervitude  and  ignorance, 
from  which  patriotifm  and  philofophy 
have  hitherto  laboured  in  vain  to  refcue 
them.  The  FAITH  infpired  by  prieftcrjft 
&\\&  flat e-cr aft >  is  the  prime  caufe  of  that 
mifery  and  tyranny,  which,  to  this  hour,, 
continue  to  rage  through  the  ur^vcric. 
Tne  SCOURGES  OF  THE  WORLD  are  held 


^o  PIGOTT'S 

out  by  PRIESTS,  as  the  VICEGERENTS  OF 
HEAVEN,  and  the  opinions  and  confciences 
of  men,  till  very  lately,  have  been  al- 
mcft  entirely  diredted  by  priefts  y  but  as 
their  empire  is  terribly  convulfed  by  the 
revolution  in  France,  which  has  ferved  ib 
efTentially  to  enlighten  the  human  under- 
Handing,  may  it  loon  be  totally  deflroyed, 
and  may  Wifdom,  Peace  and  Philanthropy 
eredt  a  Ian  ing  throne,  on  the  wreck  of 
FAITH,  Error,  and  Superitition  1  Their 
reign  has  been  too  long  ;  they  have  ruled 
with  an  iron  fceptre.  It  is  time  for  Peace 
to  fix  her  refidence  amongft  us.  The 
Millenium,  however,  can  never  arrive,  till 
FAITH  in  priefts  and  fovercigns  be  annihi- 
lated. Their  mtereft,  their  ambition  is 
war — the  grand  engine  of  CHURCH  and 
STATE. 

Fame.  A  term  in  general  moft  barba- 
roufly  mifapplied.  Murderers  have  been 
ftiled  heroes,  and  conquerors  gods.  To 
immc realize  their  memory,  maufoleums 
have  been  raifed,  the  arts  of  invention  ran- 
facked,  and  the  imagination  of  genius  ex- 
haufkd  ;  while  the  real  benefaftor  of  man- 
kind, ci.-it  during  his  mortal  pilgrimage  in 
an  humble  fphere,  may  after  death,  conti- 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       31 

.nue  to  rot  in  an  obfcure,  neglected  grave, 
without  any  honourable  memorial  to  pre- 
ferve  his  name  from  oblivion  ;  but  it  is 
time  fuch  unnatural  prejudices  and  unjuft 
diftinctions  ihould  ceafe.  Every  gene- 
rous fpirit  afpircs  to  FAME.  Itfhould  be 
the  virtuous  ftudy  of  philofophy  to  give 
to  public  gratitude  a  proper  direction 
Too  long  have  genius  and  talents  been 
proftituted  at  the  footftool  of  power,  to 
adulate  the  crimes  of  CONQUERORS  and 
KINGS.  A  brighter  example  is  due.  Let 
us  juftly  beftow  the  meed  of  Fame. 

Let  us  flrew  choicelt  flowers  o'er  the 
tombs  of  virtue  ;  let  us  venerate  with  pi- 
ous forrow  and  affectionate  gratitude,  the 
blefled  ihades  of  Hampden,  Sidney,  and 
Milton,  thofe  true  heroes,  who,  during  life, 
had  virtue  to  relift,  and  fortitude  to  en- 
dure, the  fierceft  malice  of  tyrannic  power. 
Let  us  confecrate  to  immortality,  the  me- 
mory of  all  thofe  patriots,  who  have  fuf- 
fered  and  bled  for  the  facred  caufe  of  Free- 
dom. 

Let  us  alfo  be  liberal  in  our  praife  and 
benefactions  towards  thofe  generous  mar- 
tyrs for  righteoufnefs  fake,  who  are  now 
groaning  in  cruel  bondage,  bani fried  to  a 


J2  P    I    G    O    T    T  *  S 

far  diflant,  barren,  and  inhofpitable  more, 
the  victims  of  a  moll  ferocious  defpotifnru 
Let  us  pour  the  balm  ©f  confolation  on 
their  wounded  fouls,  and  enfurc  to  them 
the  nobleft  enjoyments  to  which  they  af- 
pire  ; — the  praife  of  their  fellow-citizens, 
the  applaufe  and  admiration  of  pofterity. 

Let  e'm  remember  that  they  carry  \\ith 
them  the  regret,  the  efleem,  the  afreclioii 
of  their  countrymen  ; — of  fuch,  at  leafr, 
whofe  hearts  are  not  dead  to  humanity  and 
to  juflice. 

Let  them  chcrifh  the  grateful  hope,  that 
the  fyftem  of  delulion  and  tyranny  is  about 
to  expire,  that  their  fuffenngs  will  be  of 
fhort  duration,  that  their  chains  will  be 
broken  on  the  heads  of  their  oppreilbrs, 
and  that  their  return  will  be  hailed  with 
acclamations  of  joy,  by  an  applauding  and 
regenerated  people. 

Let  'em  alfo  reflect  that  the  breads  of 
the  mercilefs  tyrants  who  torture  /&•;#,  are 
f  hem/elves  tortured  ; — not  by  the  pangs 
of  feflfibility  and  remorfe,  but  by  the  fcor- 
pion  flings  of  terror,  anxiety  and  alarm, 
which  incefTantly  goad  them,  and  that  a- 
midil  the  tempeituous  billows  of  the  ocean, 
v/ith  all  the  devoted  victims  of  evil 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       33 

vernmentand  misfortune  before  their  eyes, 
they  enjoy  more  ferenity  of  mind,  more 
fearlefs  {lumbers,  than  the  unrighteous,  har- 
dened Judges  who  patted  the  fentence 
againft  them,  or  than  the  INEXORABLE 
M-G-T-E  who  confented  to  the  execution 
<j{  that  fentence. 

Tremble,  ye  crud  Potentates,  who 
plunge  your  fubj eels  in  mifery  and  tears, 
who  defolate  nations,  and  convert  the 
fruitful  earth  into  a  fterile  bury  ing  ground. 
Tremble  for  your  impending  fate  1  It  re- 
quires not  the  fpirit  of  prophecy  to  foretel 
your  downfal  is  at  hand.  Shudder  at  the 
ianguinary  traits  with  which  hiftory,  in- 
cenfed,  will  unfold  your  characters  to  fu- 
ture ages  ;  neither  your  fplendid  monu- 
ments, nor  your  impofing  victories,  nor 
your  unnumbered  armies  will  prevent  pof- 
terity  from  infulting  over  your  execrable 
remains,  and  avenging  their  anceftors  on 
your  horrible  tranfgreflions. 

Such  will  be  your  inevitable  doom  on 
the  approaching  aera  of  light,  which  pro- 
mifes  to  break  in  upon  us  ;  while  the  vir- 
tues that  ye  have  profcribed  and  banifhed 
{hall  be  rewarded,  and  the  memory  of  the 
martyrs  to  thofe  virtues,  be  confecrated 


34  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

fcy  the  grateful  voice  of  juft  and  unperifh- 
able  FAM-E.  They  will  be  remembered  by 
re  mot  eft  ages,  for  having  flood  forth,  in  a 
moft  eventful  and  dangerous  crifis,  the  in- 
trepid champions  of  LIBERTY  and  TRUTH; 
while  you  will  be  only  recolTeited  as  exam- 
ples of  horror,  from  the  cruelties  and  enor- 
mities ye  hive  committed,  under  the  mafk 
of  Piety  and  Religion-,  ye  mall  be  confign- 
ed  to  eternal  INFAMY,  while  tbey  (as  we 
have  often  repeated)  {hall  fiourifh  ia 

EVERLASTING     FAME. 

Famine.  For  the  exiftence  of  this  word, 
we  are  indebted  to  the  magnanimous  ex- 
ploits of  CONQUERORS  and  KINGS.  It 
is  generally  applied  in  an  extenfive  fenfe, 
Signifying  whole  nations  or  provinces  re- 
duced to  a  want  of  the  neceffary  articles  of 
life  ;  a  general  Icarcity.  Indulgent  na- 
ture had  liberally  provided,  throughout 
the  world,  every  thing  requifite  for  the 
fuftenance  and  ufe  of  its  inhabitants  ;  and 
it  is  only  by  an  ungrateful  abufe  of  her  li- 
berality, by  a  departure  from  her  mild  and 
equal  fyftem,  that  man  is  become  his  own 
tormentor.  The  fatal  politics  which  Eu- 
ropean governments  have  either  prefer ved, 
or  borrowed  from  the  old  feudal  fyftem  ; 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       35 

the  encouragement  granted,  especially  by 
kingly  powers,  to  exclulive  charters  and 
monopolies  ;  an  irrefiflible  incentive  to 
avarice  and  peculation  ;  the  rmierable  dif- 
tinctions  into  which  they  have  fplit  focie- 
ty,  and  the  plans  invented,  under  the.plau- 
fible  but  murderous  pretexts  of  commerce, 
for  the  purpofes  of  robbery  and  plunder , 
have  inflicted,  amongft  fo  many  others, 
this  horrible  fcourge  on  mankind.  Mo- 
narchical governments  are  particularly 
well  /killed  in  the  arts  of  reducing  a  nation 
to  a  ftate  of  famine.  When  the  Engliili 
bought  up  all  the  rice  at  Calcutta,  the  na- 
tives daily  expired  by  thoufands  at  the 
doors  ofthehoufes  inhabited  by  our  coun- 
trymen, and  the  jackalls  were  tranquilly 
beheld  in  immenfe  numbers  pouring  down 
from  the  mountains,,  to  regale  themfelves 
on  their  carcafes,  and  to  drink  their  blood  ; 
yet  this  dreadful  fpeclacic  made  little  im- 
preffion  on  Bntifh  feniibility.  One  indi- 
vidual, Sir  Francis  Sykes,  originally  afhoe 
black  (happy  for  the  poor  inhabitants  of 
Bengal,  had  he  never  quitted  that  obfcure 
harmlefs  flation)  is  fuppoied  to  have  ac- 
quired 200,000!.  by  the  above  monopoly> 
by  which  almoft  as  many  Indians  are  fup~ 


36  PIGOTT'S 

pofcd  to  have  perifhed  ;  fo  rigidly  did 
they  adhere  to  the  purity  of  their  religion, 
which  prohibits  in  all  cafes,  the  ufe  of  ani- 
mal flefh  ;  neverthelefs  Sir  Francis  has 
been  long  returned  to  Europe  with  his 
wealth,  enjoys  unmolefted,  otium  cum  dig- 
nitate  ,-  has  a  feat  in  the  Britifh  fenate,  bo- 
roughs at  his  command,  and  has  been  re- 
warded, by  our  moft  gracious  Sovereign, 
with  the  title  of  Baronet. 

Famine  is  one  of  the  gentlejl  inftruments 
employed  by  our  heaven-born  minifter  in 
the  prefent  juft  and  religious  war  with 
France.  All  the  treafons  he  has  fomented, 
all  the  maffacres  he  has  planned  and  cauf- 
ed  to  be  committed,  having  proved  infuf- 
ficient,  he  ftill  indulges  the  hope  of  being 
able  to  ftarve  twenty-five  millions  of  peo- 
ple, and  thereby  at  laft  to  conquer  that  na- 
tion. 

It  has  been  well  obferved  by  a  fagacious 
writer,  ff  that  if  there  were  no  KINGS,  there 
cf  would  be  no  WARS  ;"  and,  certainly,  if 
there  were  no  wars,  there  could  be  nocon- 
quefls  ;  of  courfe,  famine  would  be  un- 
known;  for  nature,  fddom  or  never,  in 
the  word  of  feafons,  is  herfelf  fo  rigorous, 
even  in  the  moil  barren  resrioas,  or  \\licrc 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.          37 

the  inhabitants  arc  moft  addicted  to  floth 
and  effeminacy,  as  to  refufe  fupply  of  their 
real  wants-.  Indeed  in  thofe  countries  where 
the  heat  of  climate  difpofes  the  natives  to 
indolence,  nature  in  general  yields  her 
gifts fpontaneoufly  ;  whereas,  in  more  un- 
grateful climes,  the  people  are  prone  to 
toil  and  labour.  But  war  does  the  bufi- 
nefs  effectually  in  all  countries,  however 
fertile  or  induftrious.  During  the  war* 
previous  to  the  peace  of  Ryfwick,  the 
price  of  corn  was  double  in  England,  and 
in  Scotland  quadruple  its  ordinary  rate  ;  and 
in  one  of  the  years  pending  that  war,  eigh- 
ty thoufand  perfons  died  of  WANT  in  the 
lafl  mentioned  country.  Neverthelefs, 
while  Kings,  Prelates,  and  Nobles,  are  not 
cxpofed  to  the  horrors  of  famine,  it  is  per- 
fectly coKJijlent  that  the  people  mould  al- 
ways, as  at  prefent,  1794,  co-operate  with 
their  leaders  to  inflict  it  on  themfelves. 
When  famine  rages  in  the  heart  of  a  coun- 
try, the  prodigality  of  a  court  experiences 
no  abatement  ;  there  it  is  unfelt ;  courts 
are  exempt  from  the  calamities  which  they 
fpread  over  the  univerfe. 

Fa/bion.     Whatever  cuftom  prevails  a- 
xnongft  the  great,  whatever  mode  of  drefs, 
C 


38  PIGOTT'S 

particular  Idiom  of  exprefTion, 
is  by  them  employed,  \ve  ftile  Fafhion  \  and 
in  general,  no  matter  how  contemptible, 
iriifchievcus,  or  unnatural,  we  are  eager  to 
adopt  and  practife  the  abfurdity. 

Thus  we  perceive,  what  a  vafi:  influence 
Fdfijion  muri  neceflarily  have  over  the  mo- 
rals of  fociety,  and  how  much  its  welfare 
consequently  depends  on  the  example  of 
the  fuperior  orders.  It  is  therefore  to  be 
lamented,  that  thofe  to  whom  we  look  up 
as  our  betters,  mould  fo  feldom  fet  up 
VIRTUE  as  a  fafaion  ;  but  that,  iriftead 

*J      J  * 

thereof,  they  fhould  only  afford  us  an  ex- 
ample of  the  moll  extravagant  follies,  of 
the  rankefl  debaucheries.  If  a  Prince  of 
Wales  mould  delight  in  the  molt  violent 
exceiles  of  the  table,  it  is  then  tkcfjfttcv 
to  be  eternally  drunk  \  if  he  fnould  on  eve- 
ry occaiion,  difplay  fymptoms  of  heed- 
lefs  and  unbounded  prodigality,  it  is  then 
the  ton  to  fix  no  limits  to  our  expences  ; 
or,  if  he  fhould  take  it  in  his  bead  to  talk 
nonfenfe,  it  then  becomes  quite  the  fafhion 
to  do  like  the  Prince,  arid  talk  like  a  fool. 
Hence  the  contagion  immediately  per- 
vades ever)  department  of  the  community, 
from  his  Royal  HighncfVs  LORD  IN  WAIT- 


POLITICAL'' -DICTIONARY.        39 

ING,  down   to  the  loii' eft  journeyman  fa  op  ~ 
keeper. 

In  like  manner  if  a  Duke  of  York,  anx- 
ious to  make  a  fplendid  parade  of  his  great 
military  talents,  mould  cry  out  for  war,  the 
whole  Britifh  noblefle  re-echo  the  found, 
and  the  nation  breathes  the  fame  warlike 
fpirit,  till  after  two  or  three  unfortunate 
campaigns,  the  treafury  drained,  commerce 
decayed,  manufactures  annihilated,  the 
mafs  of  the  people  reduced  to  beggary, 
they  begin  to  deplore  their  madnefs,  and 
to  invoke  the  btefllngs  of  peace.  Now 
then  is  arrived  the  feafon  of  reflection  ; 
pow  is  the  time  for  Britons  to  deliberate 
on  the  policy  or  impolicy  of  implicitly 
fubmitting  to  the  doctrines,  or  blindly 
adopting  the  principles  of  the  Great.  Now 
is  the  time  for  them  moft  ferioufly  to  con- 
lider  whether  fociety  owes  any  obligat  on 
to  their  virtues,  whether  it  ought  to  enter- 
tain any  rational  hope  of  improvement,  or 
happinefs,  either  from  their  exertions  or 
facriiices  ;  and  finally,  it  becomes  necef- 
fary  now  to  determine,  how  far  it  will  be 
wife  or  prudent,  any  longer  to  abide  by 
thofe  FASHIONS,  which  for  fo  many  ages, 
have  been  irjpofed  on  the  world. 


40  PIGOTT'S 

Faft  (by  proclamation.)  A  farce.  The 
people  called  on  to  go  to  church  and  ne- 
gled  their  bufmefs,  while  minifters  arc 
celebrating  their  caroufals,  and  getting 
drunk  at  each  other's  houfes.  An  impious 
mummery,  or  rather  blafphemy.  We  arc 
told  of  our  national  fins,  and,  in  expiation 
of  them,  are  inftrudted  to  befeech  the  GOD 
OF  PEACE  to blefs  our  exterminating  prin- 
ciples of  war ;  to  fet  ourfelves  up  as  a  peo- 
ple diftincl:,  on  whom  exclufively,  he 
ought  to  mower  his  benign  protection, 
and  to  crown  our  efforts,  in  deflroying 
countlefs  millions  of  his  creatures.  A 
court  juggle  ;  a  flimfy  jefuitical  contri- 
vance to  inflame  the  public  mind,  and  to 
give  the  clergy  an  opportunity  of  promul- 
gating their  flavifh  maxims,  their  political 
herefies  from  the  pulpit. 

Favourite  (Royal.)  Weak  and  arbitra- 
ry princes,  from  the  ftrft  efrablifhment  of 
monarchy,  down  to  the  prefent  day,  have 
always  had  their  favourites,  their  Minions, 
their  KNIGHTS  of  the  BACK  STAIRS  ;  ma- 
ny of  whom  have  eventually  fallen  juft  fa- 
crifices  to  the  vengeance  of  a  people  who 
could  no  longer  endure  their  outrages  and 
enormities.  A  wife  Prince  has  no  other 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.        4! 

favourite  than  the  people.  He  can  have 
no  right  to  fquander  Juperfluities  on  fa- 
vourites— to  keep  up  prodigal  eftabliih- 
ments  for  them,  while  the  nation  is  crufh- 
ed  by  a  weight  of  taxes,  and  a  majority  of 
it  reduced  almoft  to  a  want  of  necejjaries  : 
but,  as  nothing  can  be  more  capricious 
than  a  monarch's  fancy,  the  fituation  of 
thefe  gentry  is  not  the  moft  enviable  or  fe- 
cure;  and  the  examples  yielded  by  hiflory 
are  rather  a  drawback  on  their  tranquility. 
They  may  be  compared  to  fun-dials,  which 
\vhile  the  fun  mines  upon  them,  all  the 
world  are  eager  to  confult,  but  are  at  once 
forfaken,  and  left  to  their  fate,  as  foon  as 
he  has  withdrawn  his  rays. 

Feftival.  Holiday — a  day  fet  apart  for 
the  commemoration  of  any  honourable  or 
profperous  event.  The  GREEKS  and  RO- 
MANS celebrated  their  triumphs  by  Olym- 
pic games,  that  trained  their  youth  td 
martial  exercifes,  and  which  have  been  fo 
beautifully  defcribed  by  their  poets  andhif- 
torians. 

The  FRENCH  REPUBLIC  difplays  all  the 
fublimity  of  fentiment,  all  the  richnefs  of 
imagination,  and  ardour  of  patriotifm,  in 
thofe  civic  feftivals  which  the  Convention 


42  P    I    G    O    T    T'S 

decrees,  in  honour  of  any  fplendid  viftory, 
or  important  advantage,  which  the  arms 
of  Libc||fe-.atchicve  over  the  forces  of 
TieaJ1!  i^PSfid  Def^gifm.  Magnificent 
proceirioiis,  no  longer  iullied  by  the  igno- 
ble badges  of  fuperrlition  and  fanaticifm, 
but  embellifhed  with  all  the  iniignia  of 
peace,,  freedorrj,  and  equality,  animating 
citizens  with  an  invincible  hatred  of  ty- 
rants, and  a -f  acred  love  for  the  divine  caufc 
in  which  thev  arc  engaged.  Painting, 
mufic,  fculpture^all  thearts,  elegantly  and 
honourably  brought  1-orth  for  the  common 
fervice  oi :  mankind.  A  fpe&acle  combin- 
ing the  happier!  aflemblage  of  fimplicity 
and  grandeur,  which  it  is  impoflible  for  a 
generous  foul  to  contemplate  without 
glowing  with  the  immortal  fpirit  of  juf- 
tice  and  philanthopy. 

The  Englifh  obferve  their  f  eft  ivah  in  a 
different  niann-er.  Of  late,  God  knows, 
they  have  had  few  triumphs  to  celebrate  ; 
but  they  have  Hill  their  public  days  of  re- 
joicing j~ — a  Prince'of  Wales,  or  Duke  of 
York's  birth-day  !  when  oxen  are  roafted 
entire  ;  and,,  as  if  the  people  were  not  al- 
ready fu-friciently  flupified,  they  are  tobs 
further  lethargizcd  by  dint  of  BEEF  and 


POLITICAL   DICTIONARY.       43 

PORTER,  of  GLUTTONY  and  DRUNKEN- 
NESS. Then  they  are  taught  to  ihout 
<f  God  fave  the  King,"  and  to  believe  all 
human  virtue  and  morality  contained  in 
that  fenfelefs  found.  The  only  GENIUS 
which  difplays  itielf  in  thefe  our  Englijh 
feftivals>  is  the  GENIUS  of  Brutality,  the 
GENIUS  of  Deluiion,  or  the  GENIUS  of 
Confulion,  the  whole  fyftem  of  right  and 
wrong  confounded,  order  perverted,  vice 
and  tolly  exalted  to  the  ikies,  virtue  and 
talents  funk  in  the  duil  ; — a  profligate 
blockhead,  whofe  fole  merit  probably 
hangs  on  a  royal  efcutcbeov,  held  up  as  a 
PAGOD  of  adoration,  while  a  man  like 
Gerald,  with  tranicendant  abilities,  and 
moft  amiable  inodeily,  is  tamely  beheld,  in 
violation  of  all  ENGLISH  law,  of  every 
principle  of  jultice,  languifhing  in  Newr~ 
gate,  hourly  expecting  to  be  feized  and 
dragged  to  the  veflel  that  is  to  convey  his 
poor  infirm,  emaciated  body  to  Botany 
Bay. 

The  bell  illuftration  of  thefe    different 
entertainments,   is  difplax  ed  in  the  civic 
fi:ftivals>  as  arranged  by  Divid,  and  exhi- 
bited in  the  Champs  de  Mars  at  Paris,  an 
account  of  which  may  be  feen  in  Jordan's 


44  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  3 

Political  State  of  Europe,  and  in  thcfplen- 
didfeafts  given  in  honour  of  a  royal  Prince 
or  Duke's  birth-  day,  at  Brighton  and  other 
places  ;  an  account  of  which  may  be  feen 
in  moft  of  our  periodical  journals  for  the 
months  of  Auguft,  1791-92.  From  the 
contraft,  Britons  may,  in  fome  degree,  be 
enabled  to  form  an  eftimate  of  the  virtues 
and  genius  peculiar  to  each  nation.  To 
know  tjie  difference  between  a 

BRITISH  RovALisT,&a  FRENCH  REPUBLICAN  . 

COD    SAVE     THE    KING.  VIVE     LA    R£PUBLIQUE. 

Amen. 

Financier.  A  Chancellor  of  the  Exche- 
quer who  excels  in  taking  money  from  the 
people's  pocket  in  the  eafiefi  w&genteeleft 
manner.  When  it  is  neceifary  to  raife  a 
loan,  or  to  levy  taxes,  the  rniniiler,  like 
the  frog  in  the  fable,  ready  to  burit  with 
the  fenfe  of  his  own  dignity  and  impor- 
tance, collecls  around  him  the  monied  men 
of  the  city,  and  attends  to  their  different 
proportions,  with  r.ll  the  affected  gravity 
of  his  ftation.  He  then  ccnf  ults  one  con- 
fidential and  experienced  friend,  who  is  al- 
ways employed  on  thefe  occafions,  whofe 
advice  he  uniformly  follows,  and  then, 
wrapt  up  in  the  mantle  of  pride  and  con- 
fequence,  he  goes  down  to  the  Houfe  of 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.          45 

Commons,  opens  his  budget  in  an  elo- 
quent, elaborate  fpeech,  in  which  he  mines 
•with  borrowed  feathers,  and  thus  on  the 
merit  of  another,  Mr.  Pitt  acquires  the 
reputation  of  a  moil  accurate  calculator,  of 
an  excellent  Financier. 

Flat.     A  kind  of  fla/h  word,  defcribing 
a  perfon  eafily  impofed  on,  unfufpecliing, 
c redulous.  One  who  fuffershimfelf  to  be  ca- 
joled by  words,  without  looking  to  works. 
One  who  talks  of  the  excellence   of  our 
conftitution,  at  the  very  moment  when-the 
conftitution  is  violated  in  all  points  ;  one 
who  has   implicit    belief  in   the   parlia- 
mentary orators ,   who    declare    "that    the 
"  people  do  not    pay    enough   for    their 
cc  happy  government,"     while    they    are 
taxed  at  the   rate  of  feve niecn  Jbillings    in 
the  pound >  and  wjho  urge  as    a  plea  again  ft 
furrendcring  the  lead  part   of  the  profits 
arifing  from  their  finecures  and   penfions, 
that  info  doing,  they  would  encourage   a 
belief  that  the  government  was  not  worth 
fo  much  as  was  paid  for  it,*    Great  Britain 
at  this  day  is  the  land  of  Flats. 

*  Vide  Mr.  Montague's  fprech  on  Mr.  Harrifon's  motion  for 
appropriating  a  part  of  certain  penfions  and  fiuecure  places  to 
parucular  purposes. — Moini;\g  Foil,  Wednesday  April  gth,  179.1- 


46  PIG    O    T    T  ?  S 

Flattery.  A  fort  of  ?bafe  money,  which 
has  a  vaft  circulation  in  Courts.  It  cannot 
bedelcribed  better  than  in  the  words  of  a 
modern  author  :  CT  Reverfing  all  the  rules 
((  ofjuftice,  and  humanity,  matured  in  the 
cc  vile  arts  of  adulation,  at  the  fame  time 
c<  arrogant  and  overbearing,  a  courtier 
f<  will  turn  his  back  on  tranfcendant  merit, 
< (  in  the  garb  of  modefly  and  misfortune  ; 
<(  while  with  fawning  fmiles,  he  will  cringe 
"  at  the  heel  of  the  moft  deipicable  folly 
f(  or  hideous  defpotifm,  if  inverted  with 
(<  the f  acred  robes  of  royal  impunity. 

rf  The  trade  of  courtiers  is  flattery  :  it 
<r  has  paffed  uniform  and  fyftematic  in  its 
"  progrefs  through  a  fucceffion  of  ages  ; 
cf  and  on  princes  the  leaft  deferving,  it  has 
<f  generally  been  laviflied  in  moft  copious 
€f  ftrcams.  Maecenas,  the  patron  of  Ge- 
ff  nius,  degraded  his  high  character  as  the 
c<  parafite  of  Auguftus  ;  and  the  mufe  of 
<f  Boileau  was  proftituted  to  footh  the 
(<  pride,  and  gratify  the  vanity  and  ambi- 
"  tion  of  Louis  XIV.  who,  in  his  day,  was 
(S  the  fcourgeand  tormentor  of  Europe. 

f(  Tyrants,  whofe  crimes  reflecl:  obloquy 
ff  on  human  nature,  have  been  deified  dur- 
*(  ing  life  and  canonized  after  death  ;  till 
"  flattery >  having  loft  its  object,  Reafon 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       47 

<f  refumes  her  empire,  and  the  once  tri- 
<r  umphant  monder  buried  in  the  dud,  his 
(*  infamy  revives  ;  Truth  conquers  in  her 
<f  turn,  and  honed  Hiftory  paints  him  in ' 
ft  faithful  colours.  Thefceptered  murderer, 
((  whom  the  Cbriftian  Church  hailed  as  the 
<f  Faith's  Dtfender,and  be alfo  was  nicknamed 
(<  the  FATHER  OF  HIS  PEOPLE,  \\ 'ho received 
<(  the  prodituted  incenfe  of  praife,  even 
f(  from  perfons,  w'ho,  in  that  age,  were  re- 
<c  garded  as  models  of  primitive  fimpli- 
((  city  and  virtue;  now  dripped  of  his  gor- 
ff  geous  and  royal  robes,  long  fince  reciuc- 
<f  ed  to  the  common  level  of  mortality, 
"  is  furveyed  in  his  true  native  light,  in 
"  comparifon  with  whom  Commodus,  or 

<f  Nero,  were   gods." Treachery  No 

Crime,  p.  4,  5,  6- 

Fool.  It  vas  once  the  fafliion  in  Eu- 
ropean courts  to  keep  a  fool  for  the  diver- 
lion  of  kings.  A  fool  is  not  at  preicnc 
fpecincally  mentioned  in  our  civil  lid,  al- 
though we  all  know  that  it  is  clo;  '  d 
with  many/00/j,  for  whofe/c///V.t  and  pro- 
digalities, John  Bull  hfoolt'Jb  enough  to 
pay  mod  extravagantly,  while  he  himfeif 
is  hardly  indulged  with  a  morfel  of  bread 
to  allay  his  hunger.  The  old  cuftom  of 
retaining  afoot  and  jefter  is  not  altogether 


48  P    I    G    O    T     T  '  S 

obfolete  at  the  Britifh  court.  Quick,  the 
low  comedian,  and  the  Earl  of  Chefterfield, 
are  two  diftinguifhed  favourites  and  com- 
panions of  our  wife  Monarch  George  III. 

Fortune.  Like  the  fun,  makes  the  vileft 
reptiles  mine.  The  houfe  of  a  Prime  Mi- 
nifter  is  regarded  as  the  Temple  of  For- 
tune. No  deity  ever  had  fo  many  votaries. 
The  temple,  at  prefent,  is  in  Downing- 
ftreet,  where  myriads  afTemble  to  pour 
forth  their  adoration  ;  but  the  WOODEN 
GOD  is  threatened  to  be  demolifhed  ;  and, 
whenever  the  danger  approaches,  all  the 
notaries  will  run  away,  and  the  IDOL  be 
darned  to  pieces  ;  fo  precarious,  fo  very 
precarious,  is  Fortune. 

France.  The  day  probably  is  not  far 
difiant,  when  all  tbe  governments  of  Eu- 
rope will  make  amende  honorable  to  the 
French  Republic,  and  when  all  tbe  people 
of  Europe  will  invoke  benedictions  on  it, 
as  their  faviour,  their  deliverer,  in  having 
enabled  them  to  purge  the  earth  of  their 
tyrants  and  opprefTors.  A  nation  once  of 
the  moft  abject  fiaves  ;  now  a  race  of  he- 
roes !  When  liberty  is  to  be  the  prize, 
what  miracles  may  not  be  expefted  ? 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       49 

Ftilfome.  Charles  Fox  eternally  patting 
compliments  in  his  parliamentary  fpeeches 
on  the  infamous  Burke.  The  manner  in 
which  members  of  both  Houfes  of  Parlia- 
ment addrefs  each  other.  Noble  Duke, 
Noble  Lord,,  Right  Honourable  Gentle- 
man, Learned  Friend,  &c.  &c.  &c.  This 
language  may  very  properly  be  ftyled^/W- 
Jome,  fince  it  is  generally  applied  to  the 
moft  unfeeling  and  corrupt  beings  of  the 
human  race. 

G. 

Gaming.     A  vice  originating  in  avarice, 

almoft    univerfally   predominant. The 

example  of  the  great  ferves  to  encourage 
it,  the  lower  clafies  being  never  very  flow 
in  endeavours  to  imitate  their  fuperiors. 
Gaming,  therefore,  rages  through  all 
ranks  and  conditions — from  the  tennis- 
court  in  James 's-ftreet,  to  the  fkittle-al- 
Jeys  in  St.  George's-lields  ;  from  the 
Speculating,  peculating  adventurer,  who, 
at  one  jlroke  with  the  Minifter,  gains 
50,000!.  by  the  purchafe  of  a  lottery, 
down  to  the  unfortunate  female  fervanc, 
\vho  pawns  to  her  laft  rag  to  enfure  the 
number  of  which  me  dreamt  laft  night.  It 
is  impofliblc  for  &  gainller  to  rifque  his 
money  fodifadvantageoufly  asin  lotteries ; 


JjQ  PIGOTT'S 

but  they  are  dreffed  up  in  a  meretricious 
garb,  to  entrap  the  ignorant  and  inexpe-  , 
rienced. 

Nothing  can  betray  the  profligacy  of  a 
minifter  more,  than  his  everlasting  re- 
courfe  to  this  murderous  inftrument  of  re- 
venue, this  encouragement  which  he  an- 
nually holds  forth  to  the  depravation  of 
morals,  and  to  the  general  injury  of  foci- 
cty.  But  what  fignify  the  morals  of  the 
people  ?  It  is  his  bufmefs  to  corrupt 
them  ;  for  heknowsfull  well,  that  if  the 
people  had  any  morals,  they  would  foon 
burl  him  from  his  place  ;  for  which  reafon, 
gaming  and  all  other  enormities  are  encou-. 
raged  which  bring  in  grift  to  his  mill,  and 
which  have  a  tendency  to  preferve  his 
authority. 

Gaming  is  an  abominable  vice,  and  al- 
\v£ys  thrives  in  proportion  to  the  corrup- 
tion and  degeneracy  of  a  people.  It  was 
ingenioufly  obferved  by  a  French  mo- 
ralift,  refpecling  gamblers > 
ff  On  commence  par  etre  dupe,  on  finit 

par  ctre  Fripon." 

<(  We  begin  fey    being  dupes,    and    finifh 
by  being  knaves." 

As  this  is  too  often  the  cafe,  an  honed 
man  had  better  be  content  in  any  ilation, 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.          51 

than  embark  on  the  dangerous  ocean  of 
PLAY.  The  French  Republic  have  abo- 
lifhed  lotteries,  and  enacted  fevere  laws 
againft^axg/ffg.  But  the  French  are  Atheifts> 
and  what  is  much  worfe,  they  are  REPUB- 
LICANS. 

Garni/b.  When  a  poor  prifoner  is  com- 
mitted to  gaol,  he  fares  but  rudely,  unlefs 
he  tips  the  turnkeys  and  the  gaoler  their 
garnijh>  which  is  the  cant  word  for  money 
on  thefe  occalions.  This  garnijfh  produces 
miraculous  effects;  it  ftr ikes  off  the  hea- 
vieft  irons  from  the  leg  of  the  MURDERER  ; 
while,  for  want  of  it,  the  limbs  of  the  IN- 
NOC  E  N  T  are  ofren  loaded  therewith.  Gar- 
ni/b is  a  word  perfectly  well  underflood  in 
all  our  courts  of  law,  and  although  rather 
in  the  flajb  vulgar  ftyle,  it  is  not  altoge- 
ther unknown  in  more,  polite  and  imma- 
culate courts. 

For  a  further  illuflration  of  this  word, 
confult  Meffrs.  Haftings,  Loughborough, 
Harry  Dundas,  Mad.  Schwellenbergen, 
Charlotte,  &c.  &c. 

Garter  (order  of  the).  The  pride  of 
modern  nations  converts  even  the  play- 
thing of  an  infant  into  an  object  of  glory 
and  emulation.  The  Englifh  triumphantly 


£2  PIGOTT'S 

boaft  that  their  Kings  never  wore  any  fo- 
reign order,  while  many  foreign  Kings 
and  eight  Emperors,  have  been  decorated 
with  the  GARTER.  Virtuous  exultation  ! 
But  the  free  nations  of  antiquity  were  not 
vain  of  the  vanity  of  others.  The  Greek 
and  Roman  commonwealths  fixed  their  af- 
fect ions  on  different  objects. 

We  have  in  England  right  honourable 
and  noble  Garters  of  various  colours  ;  but 
the  blue,  which,  by  way  of  preference,  we 
call  THE  Garter,  is  reckoned  the  prettieft; 
and  my  Lord  will  at  any  time  give  up  the 
green,  or  the  red,  to  get  at  the  BLUE,  which 
makes  him  the  bappieft  of  men;  and  is  con- 
fideredby  this  GREAT  Nation,  as  the  ulti- 
matum of  GREATNESS  :  if,  therefore  he  be 
not  fpeedily  prefented  with  a  ribband  for 
his  neck,  of  a  coarjer grain,  we  may  expect 
to  fee  ©ur  heaven-born  Miniiler  inverted 
with  the  Garter.  In  cither  cafe,  he  •will  be 
exalted. 

Government.  An  universal  contract,  the 
object  of  which  is  the  happinefs  ot  a  date, 
for  whofe  benefit  it  was  formed. 

Whenever  the  object  is  not  attained,  it 
is  natural,  lawful,  and  right  to  alter  the 
government,  and  the  only  competent  judges 


POLITICAL      DICTIONARY.        53 

in  thefe  cafes  are  the  people  themfelvcs, 
who,  while  they  enjoy  plenty,  fecurity, 
and  freedom,  will  neceffarily  fupport  the 
fyftem  which  enfurcs  to  them  thofe  blef- 
iings,  and  who,  by  a  parity  of  reafoning, 
wrill  murmur  and  complain,  and,  at  length 
refill,  when  they  find  themfelves  opprcf- 
fed  by  fumptuary  and  fanguinary  laws,  and 
borne  down  by  a  weight  of  taxation,  that 
I  renders  all  their  induftry  and  labour  fruit- 
lefs. 

ff  That  government  isbeft  which  the  peo- 
<(  pie  think  fo,  and  they  not  /,  arc  the  na- 
<(  tural,  lawful  and  competent  judges  of 
€f  this  matter."  Burkejs  Thoughts  on  the 
Caufe  oftheprefent  Difcontents. 

Economy  is  the  wifeft  principle  of  all 
virtuous  governments.  \Vhenever  we  per- 
ceive a  departure  from  this  principle,  and 
a  nation  providing  luxuriously  for  myriads 
of  penfioners  and  placemen,  by  exorbitant 
falaries,  and  when  we  hear  thofe  minions 
afTerting  their  well  earned  claims  (which 
conlift  merely  in  the  fawning  fycophancy 
of  courtiers)  to  thofe  falaries,  boafling  of 
them  as  a  reward  conferred  on  thzirjervites 
by  the  left  of 'princes  ;  the  old  hackneyed 
language  of  peniioned  Haves,)  although 


54  P    I    G    O    T    T'S 

it  be  from  the  pockets  of  a  Jlarving  people  y 
and  not  from  the  overflowing  treafures  of 
this  BEST  OF  PRINCES,  that  the  payment  is 
extorted; — when  we  witncfs  thefe  GEN- 
TRY refilling  to  yield  up  the  fmalleft  part 
of  their  finecures  and  douceurs  towards  the 
expence  of  the  war,  in  which  they  have 
involved  thofe  who  are fuffering  the  moil 
grievoufly  and  innocently  from  it,  and 
when  we  behold  the  lethargy  of  the  people, 
under  all  the  bitter  calamities  that  have 
been  thus  wantonly  and  barbarouily  in- 
flicted on  them,  tamely  fubmitting  to 
the  provoking  arrogance,  and  glaring 
faifhoods  with  which  they  are  iniulted, 
we  may  fafely  fay  that  both  the  govern- 
ment and  the  people  have  reached  the 
acme  of  degeneracy  and  corruption ;  but 
as  evil  governments,  in  the  firft  inflance, 
corrupt  the  morals  of  the  nation,  fo  by  ex- 
cefs  of  their  corruptions,  is  a  nation  finally 
regenerated.  So  it  was  in  France  : — So  it 
will  be  in  England. 

In  monarchical  flates,  the  art  of  govern- 
ment generally  confifts  in  taking  as  much 
money  as  poflible  from  one  clafs  of  citi- 
zens, in  order  to  befrow  it  on  another  clafs  ; 
and  what  ought  to  be  very 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY-  55 

inftead  of  taking  it  from  tht  rich,  to  im- 

,  prove  the  condition  of  the  poor,  it   is  ex- 

!  torted  from  the  poor,  to  pamper  the   lux- 

;  uries  ©f  the  rich.     For  proof  of  this  affer- 

tion,  confult  thehiftory  of  our  civil  lift. 

There  are  in  print  many  more  books 
on  government,  than  there  are  princes  on 
the  earth,  yet  with  three  or  four  thoufand 
volumes  on  the  fubject,  kings  flill  appear 
mainly  ignorant  of  their  duties,  altogether 
unfkilled  in  the  art  of  governing  man- 
kind. 

The  maxim  in  kingly  governments, 
cf  that  kings  can  do  no  wrong,"  feems  to 
be  borrowed  from  the  fcriptures.  PufFen- 
dorff  obferves  that  David  having  fworn 
not  to  attempt  the  life  of  Sbimci  his  privy 
conn-feller  y  did  not  violate  his  oath,  when 
[according  to  Jewifh  tradition,]  he  or- 
dered his  fon  Solomon  to  put  Shimci  to 
death,  becaufe  David  had  only  fworn  that 
he  bim/elf  would  not  kill  Shimci.  Puff. 
book  IV.  ch.  XI.  art.  XIII. 

PuffendorfF,  by  approving  this  conduct 
in  the  Lord's  anointed,  fanctions  an  exam- 
ple, that  will  not  be  much  to  the  tafie  of 

£RIVY     COUNSE-LLORS. 

<c  Let  the  good  of  the  people  be  the  fu- 
<(  preme  law."  Such  is  the  fundamental 


56  PIGOTT'S 

maxim  of  nations.  But  the  good  of  the 
people  is  made  to  confift  in  deftroymg 
their  neighbours,  and  in  feizing  their  poi- 
ieflions.  THE  RIGHTS  OF  WAR.  Old  as  the 
world  is,  at  this  very  day  it  would  be  impof- 
fible  to  point  out  one.  government  favourable 
to  the  art  of  thinking,  or  to  the  improve* 
ment  and  delightt  of  fbciety.  The  nation 
that  attempted,  and  is  ftill  ftruggling  to 
confer  this  benefit  on  mankind,  is  marked 
out  by  the  reft  for  deftrudtion.  Government , 
according  to  the  prefent  fyftem,  being  for 
the  advantage  of  the  few,  to  the  detri- 
ment of  the  many,  the  few  having  the 
power  in  their  hands,  are  ftraining  every 
nerve  to  encreafe  that  power,  and  to  ren- 
der themfelves  invincible  ;  but  the  natu- 
ral ftrength  lies  in  the  people,  and  whene- 
ver they  are  roufed  to  exert  it,  all  factitious 
unnatural  powers  will  beat  once  deftroyed 
and  buried  in  the  dufh 

Of  all  governments,  hereditary  monar- 
chies are  certainly  the  mod  unnatural  and 
prepoilerous,  for  agreeably  with  this.fyf- 
tem,  the  chances  are  far  more  probable, 
that  a  nation  be  governed  by  folly  and 
vice,  than  by  wifdom  and  virtue,  lince  it 


POLITICAL   DICTIONARY.       $J 

hardly  be  denied  that  the  majority  of 
the  world  is  compofed  of  the  former.  In- 
deed all  hiftory  confirms  this  TRUTH. 

But  there  is  a  kind  of  ftupid  vanity  in 
men  that  inclines  them  to  flatter  the  go- 
vernment under  which  they  are  born, 
((  though  it  be  the  moft  fervileand  mifera- 
<c  ble  on  the  earth."  Modern  Romans 
are  proud  of  St.  Peter's  church,  and  of 
their  antique  Grecian  ftatues  ;  yet  it  would 
be  better  for  the  people,  that  thefe  fuperb 
monuments  were  aheap  of  ruins,  if  there- 
by they  were  to  be  better  fed,  or  better 
cloathcd ;  and  happier,  far  happier  would 
it  be  for  humanity,  and  more  honourable 
to  its  character,  if  all  the  treafures  of  the 
churches  were,  as  in  France,  made  na- 
tional property,  and  converted  to  public 
ufe. 

All  governments  which  have  hitherto 
cxiited  had  their  origin  in  conquefl  and 
terror.  Their  principle  ff  le  droit  du 
if  plus  fort/*  the  right  of  the  itrongelt, 
— we  have  heard  triumphantly  beaded  the 
glorious  republics  of  Greece.  But  what 
a  government  muft  that  be  which  drove 
Ariftides  into  banifhment,  and  which 
condemned  Phocioa  and  Socrates  to 


58  PIGOTT'g 

death  !  Yet  thefe  republics,  it  muff  be 
conferPed,  were  comparatively  excellent  ; 
far  fuperior  to  the  Government  of  the  neigh- 
bouring monarchies.  The  ancient  repub- 
lics did  not  underftand  the  reprefentativc 
fyftem. 

PuffendorrT,  in  his  feventh  book,  chap. 
v.  promifes  to  examine,  which  is  the  beft 
form  of  government.  He  tells  us,  <(  that 
feveral  have  pronounced  in  favour  of  mo- 
narchy, and  that  others,  on  the  contrary, 
are  furious  againft  Kings  ;  but  that,  for 
his  own  part,  it  would  be  FOREIGN  from 
his  fubjecl:,  to  enter  into  the  reafons  of  the 
latter  ;"  and  perhaps  it  would  be  wife  in 
us  to  imitate  the  example  of  ruffendorff, 
and  be  filent  ;  therefore  we  Ihall  conclude 
the  article  on  the  word  government,  with 
the  following  allegorical  fable. 

ff  An  eagle  ruled  over  all  birds  through- 
out the  whole  country  of  Oritnia  ;  it  is 
true,  that  he  had  no  other  right  than  that 
of  his  leak  and  his  claivs  ;  but  neverthe- 
lefs,  after  having  provided  for  his  own  lux- 
uries and  plcaiures,  he  governed  as  well 
as  any  other  bird  of  prey. 

*  »  #  *  *  /:-  *  *  *  *  *  #•  *  *  *-  *  *  •* 
####**#*#*#***** 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.       59 

To  give.  Bribery  and  corruption.  In 
its  original  fenfe,  quite  out  of  ufe. 

Gown.  A  robe  of  innocence,  when  ap- 
plied to  the  church.  If  a  parfon  fhould  in- 
fult  a  citizen  in  the  grofleft  manner,  the 
infult  muft  be  pafled  over  ;  his  gown  pro- 
teds  him.  Gown  alfo,  as  appertaining  to 
lawyers,  with  the  addition  of  an  enormous 
\vjg,  conflitutes  learning,  purity  and  pa- 
triotifm.  It  is  tljrs  fame  gown  that  gives 
coniillency  to  verfatility,  makes  abufe  can- 
dour, makes  egotifm  virtue,  makes  vanity 
"modefty,  and  gives  to  brutality  the  fem- 
blance  of  fpirit  :  in  mort,  it  can  convert 
a  Rook  into  a  great  man  !  ! 

Goivnjman.  At  Oxford  and  Cambridge 
Signifies  a  darning  young  buck,  who  is 
keeping  terms  of  riot,  extravagance  and 
debauchery  in  a  college,  to  qualify  him 
afterwards  to  appear  in  London  with  eclat. 

Grace.  In  woman,  generally  means  the 
extremity  ofaffectation  and  unnatural  con- 
toriions.  Vide  Mifs  Farren,  the  Duchefs 

of  R ,  the  divine  p iT— s,  and 

the  facrcd  C ,  &c.  &c.   Grace,  when 

in  converfation  applied  to  a  duke,   means 
no! bin?.     Thus  bis  Grace   the    Duke    of 

C) 

Lcc Js  has  no  iignification  ! 


6O  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

Gracious.  Proud,  infolent,  falfc,  and 
contemptible. 

Grandmother.  A  term  of  reproach  ne- 
ver to  be  forgiven,  if  applied  to  a  lady  of 
fafhion. 

To  grajp.  A  never-ceafingariftocratic 
endeavour,  and  the  principal  objecl  in 
view  of  the  members  of  both  houfes  of 
parliament. 

Grateful.  Obfolete.  It  is  at  prefent 
u fed  for  great  fool. 

Gratification.  Belongs  to  the  few,  and 
is  ^derived  from  the  fufferings  of  the  ma- 
ny. 

Gratis.     The  King  of  Pruflia's  fubfidy. 

Grave.  For  Britifh  troops ;  Flanders 
and  the  Weft-Indies. 

Great nefs.  In  its  primitive  fenfe,  liber- 
ty, valour,  honour,  virtue  and  benevolence; 
at  prefent,  drunkennefs,  tyranny,  extor- 
tion, treachery,  and  arrogance. 

Greedy.  George  Rofe's  moderation  ; 
fixteen  thoufands  a  year,  and  not  fatis- 
fied. 

Grimace.  Lord  Lauderdale'spatriotifm* 
and  Dr.  Moore's  candour. 

Groan.     Sedition. 

¥9  grumble.     High  treafon. 


POLITIC 


NARY. 


e  complaint  of 
the  people's  la- 

11  be  able  to  gef 
deteftation  of  ty- 

rument  of  mod  rare 
n,  lelTening  and  ihort- 
death  to   condemned 
d  after  the  name  of  the 
faid  himfelf  to  have  died 


Grunt.     A  h 
the  Swinifh  multi 
mentation. 

Guefs,     How 
through  the  pre 

Guilt,     patri 
fenny. 

Guillotine. 
and  humane  in 
ening  the  pah 
criminals  ;  fo 
inventor,  who 
under  its  axe. 

As  it  is  the  cudom  to  decapitate,  and 
not  to  being  KING  s,  there  mould  he  a. guillo- 
tine in  all  monarchical  dates,  that  in  cafe 
of  ACCIDENT,  their  MAJESTIES  might  not 
be  expofed  to  fuffer  long  and  urmecefTaiy 
torture.  The  unfortunate  Duke  of  Mon- 
mouth  received  four  ftrokes  from  the  exe- 
cutioner, before  his  head  was  fevered  from 
the  body.  With  the  guillotine  fuch  mif- 
tahes  are  impofTible  ;  the  buiinefs  is  at 
one  effected  ;  as  the  machine  falls,  fo  f'jr* 
is  the  head  to  be  that  inftant  taken  off. 
But  notwithdanding  its  eafy  and  imrnc- 
dirvte  operation,  it  itnkes  terror  into 
coward  and  guilty  brea'1 .  Mr.  P-\vis 


62  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

Alarmift,  member  for  the  county  of  N-th- 
mpt-n,  has  declared,  that  he  had  rather 
fee  ARBITRARY  POWER  eftablifhed  in  En~ 
gland,  than  that  a  GUILLOTINE  mould 
make  its  appearance  in  the  country.  Ne- 
verthelefs,  feveral  firft-rate  mechanics  are 
reported  to  be  at  work,  in  order  that  the 
people  may  not  be  difappointed,  fuppof- 
ing  it  fhould  enter  into  ibeir  beads,  that 
ibey  bad  orcafion  for  one.  To  the  French 
we  are  indebted  for  this  difcovery  ;  and 
Europe  ere  long  promifes  to  borrow  all 
their  modern  political  improvements  from 
that  nation. 

Gun.  An  engine  of  deft  ruction  ;  fo 
heavy,  that  a  man  in  England  can't  carry  it 
for  lefs  than  a  hundred  a  year. 

To  guttle.  A  minifterial  and  aldermanic 
recreation. 

H. 

Habeas  Corpus.     Hitherto  confidered  as 

the  palladium  of  Britilh  liberty,  but  now 

'  v  an  act  of  Parliament,  Jufpended.     On 

;    count  of  this  fufpenfion,  Meflrs.    John 

I  'cine  Tocke,  Hardy,  Thelwall,  Joycej 

itcr,  and  others,  have  for  many  months 

uifhed  in  prifon,  without  any  fpecific 

•c,  and  without,  at  their  firft  commit- 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.       6j 

ment,  any  profpecl  of  being  brought  to 
trial.  If  Britons  can  thus  be  treated  by 
miniflersj  what  is  liberty  ?  what  is  defpot- 
ifm  ? 

Hag.  A  fury  ;  a  fhe-monfter  ;  an  ugly 

old  woman.  Madame  S nb n; 

Lady  Cecilia  J ;  Mother  Hannau  ; 

Mrs.  M gue,  and  the  Emprefs  of  all 

the  RufTias. 

Half -feas -over.  The  moft  refpeclable 
ftate  of  fobriety  amongft  princes  and  mi- 
nifters. 

Halter.  The  future  recompence  of  ma- 
ny great  men. 

Happincfs.  Cf  That  ftate  in  which  our 
defiresarefatisfied.  Good  fortune.  Hap- 
pinefs  cannot  be  pofitively  afcertained^  be- 
caufe  the  various  and  contrary  choices  by 
\vhich  men  are  guided  in  their  purfuits, 
prove  that  all  perfons  do  not  place  their 
happinefs  in  the  fame  thing."  Lockf, 
The  objecl:  to  which  we  afpire  for  happi- 
nefs,  often  proves  our  bane  and  deilruc- 
tion.  The  only  true  happinefs  refts  in 
virtue. 

Hard-heart edncfs.  Cruelty  ;  want  of 
companion.  Magiflrates  and  judges  act- 
ing under  arbitrary  governments  are  a 


64  :    O    T    T'S 

perfecl  illufl  ration  of  the  word  hard-beart- 
edn*fs. 

Hard-heartednefs.  The  characteriftic 
of  the  bejl  of  men  ! 

Harlequin.  A  buffoon.  A  -particular  fa- 
vourite of  George  III. 

Harlot.  The  wife  of  a  Prince,  declared 
fo  by  the  wife  heads  in  Doctor's  Com- 
mons, who  can  fet  aiide  all  religious  cere- 
monies,  and  reverfe  the  decrees  of  the  Al- 
mighty. 

Harmony.  Concord,  equality.  "  The 
cf  pleafures  and  advantages  derived  from 
(<  harmony  >  are  merely  theeifecls  of  egua- 
(r  liiy,  good  proportion,  correfpondence  ; 
<(  fo  that  equality,  that  bugbear  to  arifto- 
(f  cracy  and  kings,  and  correfpondence, 
<(  are  the'  caufes  of  harmony."  Lord  Ba- 


^ 
Harmony.  TlBjkpajority  of  both  Houfes 

of  Parliamen^^^The  Combined  Pow- 
ers 1  The  Court  of  Jufticiary  in  Scotland. 
Harveft.  The  ieafon  of  reaping  the 
fruits  cf  the  earth.  A  good  or  a  bad  har- 
iefty  according  to  the  conftitution  of  mo- 
narchical governments,  has  very  little  ef- 
fect on  the  price  of  provifions.  In  the 
moil  plentiful  feafons,  the  price  is  (till 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.        65 

kept  up  ;  prodigal  landlords  rack  their 
tenants,  and  thus  the  people  derive  no  be- 
nefit from  the  bounty  of  Heaven.  The 
rich  devour  that  barveft  which  the  poor 
man's  labour  procures. 

Harvcft.  A  plentiful  crop  of  taxes  well 
got  in. 

Hafte.  Hurry  ;  precipitation.  This 
\vord  cannot  be  better  explained,  than  by 
a  reference  to  the  Dunkirk  hero  and  hu 
army  at  the  liege  of  Dunkirk,  and  on  fun- 
dry  other  occaiions. 

Haugbtinefs.  Ourimmaculate  minifter  ; 
Lord  Mansfield  ;  Lord  Loughborougli  ; 
and  the  devil. 

Havock.     Defolation  ;  llaughter. 

«  KINGS  cry  havoc k  • 

(t  Ate  by  their  lide  repeats  the  found,  and 
C(  lets  looie  the  dogs  of  war." 

SHAKESPEARE. 
<{  See  !    with    what   heat  thofe   DOGS  OF 

HELL  advance, 
€t  To    waile  and    havock    yonder   world, 

which  I 
f(  So  fair  and  good  created." 

MILTON'S  PARADISE  LOST,  Book  II. 

Hazard.     The  conquer!  of  rrancc. 

Heaven.  The  beft  definition  of  ibis 
\vord,  is  the  confjierrce  of  a  virtuous  1111 1« 


66  PIGOTT'S 

Heaven-lorn.  The  molt  infamous  of 
mankind. 

Heir.  One  who,  according  to  the  wife 
laws  of  primogeniture,  is  to  inherit  all  his 
father's  pofTefTions,  to  the  detriment  of  his 
other  relations,  although  he  be  polluted  by 
every  vice,  and  they  endowed  with  every 
virtue.  Thus,  monilers  have  inherited 
dominions,  and  become  the  fcoirrge  of  the 
human  race  ;  and  thus  mankind  will  con- 
tinue to  be  tyrannized  over,  and  to  be  mi- 
ferable,  till  they  have  courage  and  wif- 
dorn  to  unite,  to  make  off  the  yoke,  and 
get  rid  at  once  of  all  thofe  barbarous  pre- 
judices and  prepofterous  cuftoms,  that 
have  fo  long  poifoned  their  exiftence. 
[Swift  obfeives,  that  heirs  to  titles  and 
large  eftates  have  a  weaknefs  in  their  eyesy 
and  a  tendernefs  in  their  conjUtution.^ 

Hell.  A  place  of  torment ;  where  there 
Is  neither  liberty  of  fpeech,  nor  liberty  of 
thought,  nor  liberty  of  aclion  ;  where  men 
can  be  imprifoned  at  the  will  of  a  minif- 
ter,  without  ever  being  brought  to  trial  ; 
•where  the  rich  exult,  and  riot  at  the  ex- 
pence  of  the  poor  ;  where  vice  triumphs, 
profligacy  prevails,  and  war,  taxes,  and  de- 
iolation  are  the  cc-.tfolatiwis  of  the  people. 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.       67 

Hell.  The  confcience  of  a  TYRANT. 
REX,  TYRANNUS. 

Hemp.  A  plant  with  which  they  make 
ropes.  Never  did  the  cultivation  of  hemp 
deferve  more  encouragement  than  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  1794,  when  the  horrible 
crimes  of  ariftocracy  feem  to  be  preparing 
punifhments  that  will  require  a  vaft  con- 
fumption  of  the  above  falu tar y  vegetable. 
The  guillotine  is  not  yet  introduced  into 
England. 

Heraldry.  A  fubflitute  for  virtue,  ho- 
nour and  integrity. 

Hereditary.  Worfe  and  worfe.  The 
claim  of  folly  ;  the  boaft  of  infamy  ;  and 
the  pride  of  vice. 

Hercfy.  An  abjuration  of  nonfenfe  and 
fuperftition. 

Hcrefy.  The  rights  of  man,  and  the 
promulgation  of  truth. 

Hero  (Young.)  A  young  prince,  with- 
out fenfe,  without  knowledge,  and  with- 
out virtue,  who  commands  armres,  under 
the  direction  of  fome  officer  of  (kill  and 
experience. 

Hero.  This  word,  in  its  literal  fenfc, 
fignifks  a  perfon  eminent  for  bravery  and 


68  PIG 

virtue.  According  to  the  modern  reading 
in  England,  it  fignifies  a  young  prince, 
from  the  ftevvs  of  debauchery  and  excef- 
five  diflipation,  inverted  in  an  inftant  with 
the  command  of  numerous  armies,  which 
he  directs  at  pleafure,  without  ever  expof- 
ing  his  own  precious  perfon  within  four 
miles  diftance  of  the  leafl  danger.  The 
city  of  Valenciennes  furrendered  to  the  va- 
lour  of  the  renowned  Dunkirk  hero>  while 
it  is  a  notorious  facl:,  that  this  fame  PRU- 
DENT commander  was  never  within  five 
miles  of  the  place  during  the  whole  time 
oftheiiege.  The  beroifm  of  this  illuftri- 
ous  Chief  may  be  more  ieverely  tried  be- 
fore he  arrives  at  Paris  ;  an  expedition 
\vhich  he  appears  to  have  fo  dearly  at  heart. 
His  magnanimous  uncle,  the  Duke  of 
Brunfwick,  threatened  in  like  manner  ; 
but  neither  was  that  veteran  HERO  up  to 
the  atckievement.  Paris  ftill  holds  their 
HEROISM  in  mockery  and  defiance,  not- 
\vithftanding  the  brilliant  and  UNSOUGHT 
advantage  obtained  by  the  furrender  of 
Landrecics. 

Hanover.  From  the  year  1740  to  1756 
it  was  a  place  not  to  be  found  in  the  map, 
a  poor,  pit  if ul  electorate  ;  but  being  the  pa- 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.      69 

trimonial  territory  and  the  electoral  do- 
minions of  our  Moft  SERENE  SOVEREIGN, 
mult  be  preferved  as  a  mill-ftone  about 
the  neck  of  England,  the  ruin  of  our  trea- 
fuiy,  and  the  grave  of  Britons.  Thus 
happy  are  we  incur  German  connections. 
Hero.  The  great  Duke  of  York;  Phi- 
lip Artley,  Efq.  of  Hercules-hall,  Lam- 
beth, Marfhal  Freytag,  Prince  of  Saxe- 
Cobourg,  the  Prince  of  Orange  and  Ge- 
neral Paoli. 

Hesitation.  (e  Intermiffion  of  fpeech." 
Johnfon.  Squire  Rolle  and  Squire  Drake, 
whenever  they  rife. to  fpeak  in  the  Houfe 
of  Commons,  afford  a  tolerable  idea  of 
he  fit  at  ion. 

Hiccius  Doccius.     A  cant  word    for   a 
juggler  in  any  ftation.     Juftice  Mainuar- 
ing  is  an  biccius  doccius. 
"  An  old  dull  fool,  who  told  the  clock 
<(  For  many  years  at  Bridewell-dock, 
"  At  IVeftminflcr  and  HICK'S   HALL, 
<(  And  biccius  doccius  played  in  all  ; 
ff  Where,  in  all  governments  and  times, 
"  He'd  been  both   friend    and    foe    to 
crimes.'' 

HUDIBRAS. 

Hideous.     The  countenance  of  William 
Pitt, 


•70  PIGOTT'S 

Hierarchy.  An  ecclefiaftical  cftablifh- 
ment,  whofe  principles  art  pomp,  fplendour 
and  revenue.  Jefus  Chrift.,  the  Founder 
of  ourreligioa,  on  the  contrary,  preached 
poverty,  humility^  equality.  Chriftian  Bi- 
fhops  delight  and  revel  in  wealth  and  pa- 
laces, yet,  departing  fo  wide  from  its  max- 
ims, they  are  infolent  enough  to  uphold 
the  excellence  and  orthodoxy  of  the  Chrif- 
lian  fyftera.  Aa  invention  of  pricft  craft, 
which  united  with  flat 'e '-craft  helps  to  daz- 
zle and  cnflave  the  unhappy,  deluded 
people. 

Hint.  Infinuation  ;  gentle  fuggeftioii. 
Hints  are  often  as  iignificant  and  expref- 
iive  as  downright  plain  fpeaking,  arad  pro- 
duce the  fame  erTecl-.  Sometimes  indeed 
they  fail.  The  combined  powers  have  re- 
ceived pretty  broad  hints,  how  mad  and 
defperate  is  it  t©  attempt  the  conquefl 
of  France.  "  But  in  blood  they  are 
<f  plunged  fo  deep,  that,  without  confult- 
<c  ing  j ufr.ice  or  humanity,  they  hold  it 
Cf  now  as  fafe  for  themfelves  to  advance 
fc  as  to  retire.  They  will  take  no  hint. 
((  They  have  fet  their  all  upon  a  caft, 
<f  and  are  refolved  to  ftand  the  hazard  of 
*f  the  die." 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.       71 

Hireling.  Venal,  corrupt,  defigning 
men,  all  thofe  who  ad  for  intereft — John 
Reeves,  ESQJJIRE,  Sec.  &c.  &c. 

To  hire.  To  give  places,  peerages  and 
peniions. 

Hiftory.  Formerly  a  true  and  juft  re- 
cord of  pad  tranfactions  ;  which  if  exe- 
cuted now  in  the  fame  manner,  would  be 
termed  a  libel,  and  call  down  the  ven- 
geance of  the  Attorney-General. 

Hiftory.     The  relation  of  pail  events. 

Hiftoriograpbcr.  Hiftorian,  paid  to  con- 
ceal THE  TRUTH.  It  feems  the  ancient 
defpots  had  neglected  this  precaution,  to 
lave  their  memory  from  the  judgment  of 
poftcrity.  It  is  not  requilite  to  unite  the 
qualities  of  TACITUS  to  be  a  modern  hifto- 
riographer,  but  thofe  of  Dr.  Johnfon,  Ar- 
thur Young,  &c.  &c. 

Holy.  The  prefent  war,  the  flave  trade, 
the  Pope,  the  Archbifhop  of  Canterbury, 
and  Bifhop  Horfeley. 

Honour.  A  quality  that  will  carry  a  pa- 
triot to  Botany  Bay,  a  vulgar  prejudice  : 
in  high  life  it  means  the  debauching  your 
neighbour's  wife  or  daughter,  killing  your 
man,  and  being  a  member  of  the  Jockey 
Club,  and  Brookes's  gaming-houfe. 


72  PIGOTT'S 

Houfe.  (Though  your  own),  yet  in 
England  a  place  of  no  fecurity,  as  ruffians 
may  enter  it  and  pillage  if  they  pleafe, 
and  drag  the  owner  away  t©  prifon,  when- 
ever the  Minirter  thinks  proper. 

Humanity.  Every  fpecrks  of  violence, 
injuftice  and  oppreilion. 

Humility.  The  Marquis  of  Bucking- 
ham. 

Hypocrify.     The   mofl  thriving  of  all 
qualities. 

Hypocrify.     Hypocrify  of  humanity,  is 
the  mofl  odious    of  all  hypocrilies.     Can 
we  behold  without  HORROR,    a  man    who 
condemns  a  war,  as  iniquitous  and  unjuft, 
take  upon  him  the  command  of  an  expe- 
dition, diabolically  criminal,  the  object  of 
\vhich  was  to  arm  citizen  againft  citizen, 
and  the  child  againfl:  his  parent.      When 
the  EXECUTIONER  lifts  his  murderous  annj 
againfl    his  fellow  creature,    he  is  the  in- 
flrument  of  the  law.     But  what  name  can 
be  applied  to  the   merit  of  the  unprinci- 
pled military  favage,  who  has  taken    up 
arms  in  a  caufe  which  he  admits  and  ac- 
knowledges to  hr  '.Muni  !* 

Hypothecs.      The   Britifh  army  march- 
ing vivtorioufiy  :        aria. 

'*  Earl  Moira'sCxorditioo  to  t':C  coafl  of  I' 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       73 
I. 

¥o  jabber.  To  talk  Idly,  to  prate  with- 
out thinking,  to  chatter  ;  like  young  Jen- 
dni'bn,  Mr.  Canning,  Tom  Steel  and 
others. 

Jacobin.  Every  man  who  dares  to  ob- 
e6l  toany  part  of  the  conduct  of  adminif- 
tration  ;  every  man  who  difapproves  cf 
the  prefent  war  with  France  ;  and  every 
man  who  willies  for  a  parliamentary  re- 
brm  and  an  equal  reprefentation  of  the 
Deople. 

Ice.  A  cold  fubftance  of  whieh  the 
learts  of  moft  GREAT  men  are  compofed. 

Idol.  An  object  of  weak  and  ignorant 
adoration.  Thus  it  is  often  afTerted,  that 

HEAVEN-BORN  minifter  is  the  idol  of  the 
people. 

Idiot.  Poor  John  Bull,  in  his  prefent 
ftate  of  degradation. 

Jewel.  Something  irrefiftibly  capti- 
vating to  the  eye$  of  a  pious  and  chafte 
Queen. 

Jejler.     Onewhojefts — a  Jekyl. 

Ignominy.  True  patriotifm,  philan- 
tropy,  and  incorruptibility. 

Ignorance.     A  committee  cf  fecrecy, 
E 


/?4  p    1    G    Q    T    T'S 

Ill-nature.  Arifiocracy,  epifcopacy,  roy- 
alty. 

cTo  illuminate.  To  darken  the  human 
vmderftanding  by  every  poifible  artifice. 
Thus  the  miaifterial  ncwfpapers  of  the 
prefent  time  maybe  faid  to  illuminate  the 
public. 

Immediately.  In  minifterial  language, 
fignifies  fome  years  hence,  or  perhaps 
never. 

Imminent.  The-dangers  which  threaten 
ariftocracy. 

Immoderate.  The  national  debt,  taxes, 
tythes,  and  ariftocratic  infolence. 

Immutable.  Mr.  Pitt  and  his  party  ; 
the  fyftem  of  fpies  and  informers  ;  the 
loyalty  of  peers,  placemen  and  penfioners. 

Implacable.     All  the  enemies  of  liberty. 

Impiety.  A  faft  appointed  to  be  ob- 
ferved,  for  the  purpole  of  inducing  the  Su- 
preme Being  to  favour  our  exertions  to- 
wards the  exterminating  of  twenty-five 
millions  of  the  French. 

Impertinent.  To  pafs  a  lord  without 
bowing,  or  to  look  at  minifters  with  a 
imile. 

Impqjtbitity.  For  an  Englifhman  to  get 
promotion  on  the  mere  fcore  of  merit, 
vlthout  intcrcfl. 


PO  L  I  T  I  C  A  L    D  I  C  T  IO  N  A  R  Y.       75 

Importance.  A  few  yards  of  ribband 
fining  acrofs  the  fhoulders. 

Imprefs.  To  take  a  man  by  force  from 
his  own  home  and  the  bofom  of  his  family, 
and  compel  him  to  fight  for  his  King  and 
Country. 

Imprifonment.  Minifterial  argument, 
or  an  anfvver  to  all  complaints. 

Improbable.  The  Duke  of  York's 
march  to  Paris  with  his  army. 

Incomprehensible.  Minifterial  opera- 
tions,, Bifhop  Horfeley's  holinefs,  and 
Lord  Loughborough's  difintereftednefs. 

Independence.  The  Duke  of  Portland, 
Mr.  Wyndham,  Edmund  Burke,  and 
other  FRIENDS  to  their  country. 

Independent.  (Freeholder)  one  who, 
on  every  election  for  members  *tbf  parlia- 
ment, facrifices  his  conference  to  his  con- 
venience, lets  up  his  dear  country,  and 
his  darling  freedom  to  the  beft  bidder,  yet 
impudently  finds  fault  with  his  reprefen- 
tative,  for  following  fo  laudable  an  exam- 
ple, nor  fuffers  any  body  to  be  a  fcoun- 
drel,  without  reproach  but  himfelf.- 

Infatuation.  Is  the  ftate  of  a  nation 
\vhen  all  the  abufes  of  its  government 
fcem  toconftitutc  it's  pride,  when  it  glo- 


r~6  P    I    G    O    T    T'S 

ries  in  its  fhame,  and  exalts  to  the  fkies 
the  very  rnen  who  have  undermined  its 
conftitution,  and  reduced  the  people  to 
the  moft  abjcdt  flavery. 

Innovation.  A  term  applied  to  every 
fpecies  of  improvement,  and  particularly- 
dreaded  by  corrupt  ru1'  1  as  by  all 
placemen  and  penil  ;;: 

Inquiry.  Sedition,  a  crime  of  the  fir  ft 
magnitude,  and  which  is  to  be  punifhed 
by  fine,  imprifonment  a  .ay. 

In  fat  table.  Arifloci  :uc  avarice  of 
power,  wealth  and  titles. 

Infenfibility.  Thofe  unfortunate  mili- 
tary machines,  who  fuffcr  themfelves  to- 
be  flogged,  half  flarved,  and  {hot  at,  for 
the  fake  of  glory,  and  iix-pence  per  diem- 

'To  injnart.  Toenlift  men  for  his  Ma- 
jetty's  fervice,  by  decoying  them  into 
houfes  of  ill-fame,  then  by  beating  them, 
and  by  every  fpecies  of  cruelty  forcing 
them  to  accept  a  {hilling. 

Infolence.  The  treafury  bench,  St.  Ste- 
phen's. 

Ireland.  (The  people  of)  a  noble  and 
fpirked  nation,  inviolably  attached  to  us^ 
by  every  tic  of  friendfhip  and  efteem,  and 
v/ho,  on  every  occaiion^  hazard  both  their 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.          77 

lives  and  fortunes  in  our  defence  ;  yet  to 
whom  we  conftantly  make  fuch  juft  and 
grateful  returns,  as  to  omit  no  opportu- 
nity (however  illegal  and  arbitrary)  of  beg- 
garing them,  though  the  ruin  of  their  in- 
terefl  lays  a  manifeit  foundation  for  the 
deftrudhon  of  our  own. 

Irony.  A  mode  of  fpeech,  in  which  the 
meaning  is  contrary  to  the  word  ;  as  Pitt 
is  a  great  and  worthy  character  ;  Wynd- 
ham  a  true  lover  of  his  country ;  the  Duke 
of  Portland  a  wife  and  independent  patri- 
ot ;  Edmund  Burke  a  man  of  the  mofl 
virtuous  conftftency. 

Jujlice  and  impartiality.  A  captain** 
commiflion  to  a  child  not  ten  years  old, 
while  many  a  wounded  veteran  who  have 
ventured  their  lives  in  the  fervice  of  their 
Country  are perifoing  through  want. 

Jujlice.     Obfolete. 
K. 

To  kidnap.  To  recruit  foldicrs  for  hii 
majefty's  fervice  by  delufion,  and  by  in- 
veigling them  into  haufes  of  ill-fame, 
\vhere,  fhould  the  poor  wretches  fo  tre- 
panned make  refinance,  or  refufe  to  re- 
ceive the  proffered  milling  of  the  nominal 
captain  who  attends  there,  they  are  fure 
tc  be  plundered  and  beaten,  if  hot  killed. 


78  P    I    G    O    T    T'S 

King.  From  the  Saxon  word  Kuenmg, 
orKuyning,  is  but  the  abbreviation  of 
cunning  or  crafty,  the  uiual  diilinction 
and  epithet  for  knaves.  According  to 
SWIFT,  a  king  ought  to  be  nothing  but  a 
SCARE-CROW  placed  in  the- midft  of  the 
fields  to  DEFEND  the  corn  ;  inflead  of 
which  they  have  almoft  ever  been  the 

WILD  BEASTS    which    DEVOUR   it. 

King.  The  chief  magiftrate  of  a  ftate, 
generally  hereditary.  Kings  were  held  in 
utter  deteflation  by  the  ancient  Romans 
during  the  time  of  the  Republic  ;  and 
they  are  in  like  manner  execrated  by  the 
modern  French.  A  million  a  year  ftcrling 
is  a  mere  trifle  to  fupport  a  king,  who  is 
perhaps  f eld  cm  feen,  and  leaves  all  the 
trouble  of  government  to  his  rninifters,  who 
frequently,  under  the  fanction  of  his  au- 
thority, plunder  the  people  without 
mercy,  and  involve  them  in  fanguinary  aad 
unneceflary  uars.  Kingcraft  leems  every 
where  to  be  now  upon  the  decline,  or  in 
other  words,  (f  Kings  are  rife  I"  The  chief 
excellence  however  in  an  Englishman's 
character  at  this  time  is  loyalty,  i,  e.  roy- 
alty, or  a  love  for  kings  !  !  ! 

King  (infallibility  cf  the).     By  the  ex- 
prefs  declaration  of  our  laws,  an  Englifh 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.  79 

Iprincc  is  a  piece  of  royal  infallibility,  inca- 
pable of  doing  wrong.  The  poiition  that 
ji  king  can  do  no  wrong,  muit  either  tax 
the  Englifh  nation  with  great  injuilice, 
or  great  inconfiitency.  If  a  king  can  do 
no  wrong,  why  was  king  James  the  Se- 
cond banifhed  ?  and  if  a  king  can  do 
wrong,  why  the  plague  are  we  conftantly 
affirming  that  he  cannot  ?  Either  way 
we  fbind  felf-condemned  ;  and  if  we  arc 

not  fet  down  as  a  nation  of  fcoundrels,  we 
muil  think  ourfeives  pretty  eafy  under  the 

appellation  of  fools. 

SWIFT. 
King    (dif affection    to    the).      Whatever 

points  out  the  grievances  of  the  people, 

and  endeavours  to  remove   a    weak  and 

wicked  minifter. 

cfo  kifs  (the  breech  of  perfons  in  power). 

A  lure  and  fpeedy  way  to  get  preferment. 
Knight.     A  ilrange  fort  of  an  animal 

into  which  the  kingfometimes  transforms 

a  man  ;  thus  Sir  Watkin  Lewes,  Sir  James 

Saunderfon,  Sir  Jeifrey  Dunltan,  and  Sir 

Sidney  Smith,  are  knights. 

Knowing*  Is  applied  to  being  acquainted 

with  every  fpecies  of  ariilocratic   foppery 

and  vice. 


SO  P    I    G    O    T    T  *  S 

L. 

Labour.  The  occupation  of  the  Swinifh 
Multitude,  who  are  kept  to  it  twelve 
hours  a  day,  though  it  can  hardly  procure 
iubiiilence  fora  wife  and  family,  as,  con- 
iidering  the  prefcnt  enormous  taxes,  iix 
or  feven  ihillings  a  week  is  fcarce  fufficient 
to  provide  bread  for  one.  This  fame  la- 
bour alfo  is  held  in  the  utmoft  contempt 
by  the  ufelefs  great,  though  at  the  fame 
time  they  derive  all  their  luxuries  and  ex- 
cluiive  advantages  from  the  exertions  of 
the  induftrious  poor.  A  hard-working 
man  and  a  poor  devil  are  fynonimous 
terms  in  the  language  of  Ariftocracy. 

Lady.  The  witc  of  any  titled  man  ;  it 
is  fuppofed  to  mean  fomething  more  than 
•woman.  To  call  a  ladv,  WOMAN,  would 
be  the  high  eft  infult  !  !  ! 

To  lament.  The  portion  of  the  inferior 
orders  of  fociety  ;  who,  however,  are  told, 
in  compaflion  to  their  prcfent  fuiFerings, 
that  their  reward  and  happinefs  is  to  come 
hereafter. 

Lajh.  In  the  plural,  is  applied  to  fol- 
diers  who  commit  faults  ;  feven  hundred  or 
a  thoufand  lames  with  a  cat-o'-nine-tails 
being  frequently  bellowed  upon  them  by 


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way  ofdifcipline,   and  to  ftrengthen  their 
loyalty. 

To  Lwifh.  To  fpend  money  like  a  prince, 
at  the  national  expence. 

Lavi/bnefs.  Folly  in  an  individual,  but 
robbery  and  peculation  in  a  prince.  Blef- 
fed  be  God,  our  princes  have  not  THIS  SIN 
to  anfwer  for  among  their  many  !  !  ! 

Laurent.  A  man  paid  by  a  king  to 
write  odes  in  his  praife. 

Laix.  A  very  expend ve  commodity, 
rather  more  advantageous  to  the  rich  and 
profperous,than  to  the  poorand  wretched. 

Lawn.  When  cut  into  an  immenfa 
pair  of  pudding-fleeves,  denotes  ftnttity 
and  wealth  ;  it  is  an  outward  and  vifible 
iign  of  an  inward  and  fpiritual  grace  ;  it  is 
the  glory  of  the  church. 

Law?  (agreeable  to  the  confutation).  Acts 
which  are  palled  by  minifterial  influence, 
and  have  an  immediate  tendency  to  in- 
croach  upon  the  freedom  and  property  of 
the  fubjecl:. 

Laws  (tranfgrejflon  of  the).  An  exer- 
tion of  that  natural  right  which  every  man 
has  toa  hare  orapartridge  belonging  to  hi? 
own  grounds,  and  which  deftroy  both  his 
corn  and  grafs^by  the  authority  of  parlia- 
ment. 


82  PIGOTT'S 

Laxincfs.  Nobility,  gentility,  epifco- 
pacy. 

Leveller.  The  man  who  wiflies  to  be- 
hold the  GLORY  OF  THE  LAWS  march 
horizontally  on  the  heads  of  all  mankind. 

ABBE  RAYNAL. 

Liable  (to  be  fent  to  Botany  Bay,  or  be 
Ranged  drawn,  and  quartered.)  All  per- 
fons  w  ho  find  fault  with  the  prefcnt  go- 
vernment, or  exert  themfelves  to  procure  a 
Parliamentary  Reform. 

Libation.  A  minifterial  offering  to  the 
profperity  of  Old  England. 

Liberty  and  Property.  An  indifpenfible 
neceffity  of  keeping  game  for  other  people 
to  kill,  with  pains  and  penalties  of  the 
moll  arbitrary  kind,  mould  we  think  of 
appropriating  the  minutefl  article  to  the 
uie  of  our  own  families. 

Lie.     A  gracious  fpcech  !  a  falfehood. 
Thou  licit,  abhorred  Tyrant,  with  my 

fvvorci 
I'll  prove  the  lie  thou  fpeakeft. 

SHAKESPEARE'S  MACBETH. 

Life.  Is  a  ftate  of  exifrcnce  which  is 
to  be  facrificed  by  the  lower  orders  of  fo- 
ciety  whenever  kings  and  miniftcrs  think 
proper — witnefs  the  recking  plains  of 
Flanders. 


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Light.  In  Great  Britain  a  taxable  com- 
modity. 

Loaves  and  Ft/be s.  The  great  objects  of 
ariftocratic  contention,  the  difpofal  of 
which  conftitutes  the  chief  merit  of  a  hea- 
ven-born minifler. 

Lord.  A  creature  made  by  a  king,  and 
\vhich  cannot  be  defined. 

Lordling.  A  little  lord ;  a  lord  Mont- 
fort  ;  a  lord  Valletort. 

To  lordlings  proud  I  tune  my  lay, 

Who  feaft  in  bovv'r  or  hall, 
Tho'  dukes  they  be,  to  dukes  I  fay, 
That  pride  will  have  a  fall. 

SWIFT. 

Lords  (of  the  ocean.)  The  fenfible  and 
fpirited  people  of  Great  Britain,  who  have 
a  naval  force  coniiderably  fuperior  to  all 
the  other  ftates  of  Europe  put  together, 
yet  fervilcly  do  homage  to  a  neft  of  Afri- 
can pirates,  and  pay  a  yearly  tribute  to  a 
fct  of  robbers,  whom  they  ought  to  root 
out  and  extirpate  from  the  face  of  the 
earth  ;  a  much  more  noble  ad:  than  the 
extirpation  of  the  French  people. 

Loyalijl.  A  placeman  ;  a  peniioner  ; 
a  lord  ;  a  bifhop  ;  a  rich  man  ;  an  Ed- 
rnund  Burke  ;  an  Arthur  Young  ;  and  a 
l.'r.  Jrcjvcs.  £5 


84  PIGOTT'S 

Loyalty.  To  hollow  in  a  public  theatre 
for  the  fong  of  God  fave  the  King  !  to 
praifc  the  prefent  glorious  >  jufl  and  necef- 
Jary  war  !  and  to  oppofe  every  fpecies  of 
reform. 

Loyalty  (true.)  Extends  to  one's  coun- 
try as  \ve)l  as  to  the  prince  ;  and  to  oppofe 
tyranny  is  no  breach  of  loyalty,  but  an  ef- 
fcntial  branch  of  it.  LOYALTY  (as  the 
very  word  imports)  is  fuch  an  attachment 
to  both  king  and  people,  as  is  founded  on 
the  laws  ;  and  a  hair's-breadth  beyond  law, 
true  loyalty  does  not  go. 

AUG.  TOPLADY. 

Luxury.  Profuiion,  debauchery  ;  Carl- 
ton-Houfe. 

M. 

Madnefs.  In  political  life,  an  over- 
heated brain  with  difappointcd  ambition. 
It  has  lately  appeared  in  diflempered  rav- 
ings againfl  the  French,  in  vehement 
gefticulation,  in  throwing  down  a  dagger 
in  the  midit  of  an  imtemperate  fpeech, 
and  in  writing  books  full  of  obfcurity  and 
myfticifm,  filled  with  extravagant  fictions 
and  falfe  rhetoric.  The  cafe  of  one  Ed- 
mund Burke,  who  has  been  lately  afflicted 
with  this  difeafe,  will  illuftrate  the  ordi- 
nary phenomenon  of  this  mania.  Seethe 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       Sj 

lift  of  patients,  moft  of  them   incurables, 
in  the  hiftory  of  St.  Stephen's  Hofpitai 

'Tis  the  time's  plague  when  madmen  lead  the  blind. 

SHAKE  s  P  E  AR  E. 

Magna  Chart  a.  An  idle  word,  IDLY 
made  ufe  of  by  the  populace,  fignifying  a, 
natural  right  of  being  governed  by  juft 
laws,  equally  diflributed,  which  they  con- 
ftantly  luffer  to  be  trampled  on,  and  an  in- 
herent claim  to  the  pofleffionof  thofe  pri- 
vileges which  they  have  neither  fenfe  or 
fpirit  enough  to  poiTefs. 

Majefty.  This  word  once  fignified 
greatnefs  of  mind  ;  but  fincc  it  has  been 
ufed  as  a  title  for  kings,  it  has  of  courfe 
acquired  a  contrary  interpretation.  It  is 
indifcriminately  applied  to  a  Trajan  and  a 
Louis  ;  a  Harry  the  Fourth  of  France  and 
a  George  the  Third  of  England. 

Majority.  The  cattle  belonging  to  the 
miniflry  ;  or,  in  other  words,  a  Fet  of  men 
whole  bufinefs  it  is  to  plunder  the  nation, 
.under  pretext  of  reprefenting  it.  The 
greater  part  of  them,  during  a  debate,  are 
lounging  about  the  lobbies,  or  dining  at 
Beverley's.  When  the  harangues  are  over 
they  are  fummoned  by  their  keeper,  and 
ranged  in  the  order  in  which  he  wifhes 


86  p  i 

them  to  be  placed.  Some  of  them  are  in 
a  profound  fleep  at  their  own  houfes  when, 
they  are  obliged  to  attend  a  divifion  upon 
war  and  peace,  or  fome  other  folemn  and 
important  queflion ;  and,  having  perform- 
ed their  legiflative  functions,  with  uiv 
buttoned  breeches  and  ungartere.d  hofe, 
they  return  as  expeditioufly  as  poflible  to 
their  beds.  But  there  are  always  fome 
\vho  fit  in  the  Houfe  to  utter  cc  hear  him/' 
as  loud  as  they  can  bawl,  when  the  minif- 
ter  or  Lord  Mornington  is  making  a  drow- 
fy  fpeech.  This  tribe  has  been  augmented 
iince  the  rife  of  the  new  feel:  of  Alarmiils. 
See  Alarmijls. 

Malcontent.  A  hog  that  is  fhut  out  of 
its  ilye  on  a  frofty  night,  and  who  grunt's 
to  be  let  in. 

Malcontents.  The  greater  part  of  this 
nation  ;  confining  of  the  laborious  poor, 
from  whom  the  earnings  of  impoverifhed 
induflry  are  fqueezed  and  torn,  for  the  fup- 
port  of  our  happy  Conftitution,  the  pride 
of  the  world  !  the  envy  of  furrounding 
nations  !  &c.  &c. 

Malefactors.  Either  in  Parliament,  or 
on  the  high  way.  The  former  are  fuppofed 
to  belong  to  a  more  dignified  clafs  than 


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the  latter.       The  difference  in  their  for- 
tunes is  very  great  ;   the  one  clafs  is  ele- 
vated to  places  at   court,   and  rewarded 
;  with  penfions  ;  the  other  is  elevated  to  the 
•  gibbet,  and  rewarded  with  a  rope. 

Malevolence.  A  new  figure  of  rhetoric, 
introduced  by  Mr.  Pitt  into  his  fpeeches. 
Man.  A  degenerate,  degraded  animal; 
the  victim  of  kings,  priefts,  and  courtiers. 
Born  to  be  free,  yet  content  to  be  a  flave. 
Homo  eft  duplex  animal,  fay  the  old  fchool 
men.  When  he  is  independant  and  free, 
he  is  the  nobleft  work  of  the  creation,  the 
image  of  his  Maker  ;  but  when  he  is  a  fub- 
jecl  to  monarchs,  and  duped  by  their  mi- 
riifters,  he  is  the  vileft  wretch  that  crawls 
upon  the  earth.  When  he  ftarts  from  op- 
preilion,  and  breaks  his  chain,  he  prefents 
an  awful  and  fublime  fpediacle,  on  which 
the  gods  might  look  with  pleafure ;  but 
finking  into  ignorance  and  llavery,  he  is 
the  fcorn,  the  difgrace,  and  the  derifionof 
every  clafs  of  animated  beings. 

Manage.     To  hood-wink  and  deceive. 
<(  Let  us  alone,  and  we  will  manage  JOHN 
€<  BULL,  I'll  warrant  you." 
SWIFT'S  Mifcellanies.  Hilt,  of  John  Bull. 


S3  PIGOTT'S 

Mangy.  Applied  to  dogs  infe-flcd  with 
the  mange ;  and  metaphorically  to  the 
Houfc  of  Commons. 

Manifejlo.  A  kind  of  compofltion  in 
which  bullying  generals  and  lying  minif- 
ters  excel.  The  Duke  of  Brunfwick  threat- 
ened to  put  all  the  Parifians  to  fire  and 
the  fword  ;  and  he  gave  the  French  notice 
of  it  by  means  of  his  celebrated  manifeilo, 
But,  owing  probably  to  the  badnefs  of  the 
roads,  as  well  as  other  unavoidable  acci- 
dents, his  Serene  Highnefs,  after  having 
proceeded  part  of  the  way,  was  under  the 
neceflity  of  poftponing  his  journey. 

Manifejlo.  An  aflemblage  of  lies  and 
deceit,  ufed  by  crowned  villains  and  their 
military  flaves  to  juftify  their  ufurpations, 
injuftice,  and  treachery.  That  which  was 
publifned  by  the  duke  of  Brunfwick,  in 
the  names  of  the  Emperor  and  the  King  of 
PrufTia,  exceeds  by  far  every  thing  of  the 
kind.  If  the  ancient  chiefs  of  the  HUNS 
and  VANDALS  had  known  how  to  write, 
they  would  have  preceded  their  invafions 
by  manifeflos  lefs  barbarous  and  inhuman, 
and  lefs  abfurd. 

Manufacturers.  According  to  the  de- 
finition of  the  minifter,  a  difcontented  fet 


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of  men,  who,  being  infected  with  fedition 
and  Jacobinifm,  clamor  againft  a  juft  and 
neceifary  war,  becaufe  it  deprives  them  of 
their  trade,  and  ftarves  their  families  ! 

March.  A  military  movement ;  at  fomc 
times  quicker  than  others.  When  the 
Duke  of  York  marched  from  Dunkirk,  the 
pace  of  his  army  was  what  the  coachmen 
y  ould  call ff  the  long  trot." 

Market.  Of  two  kinds;  r.  fuchasthat 
in  Co  vent-Garden  ;  2.  fuch  as  that  in  the 
Houfe  of  Commons.  In  the  one  are  fold 
fruit,  vegetables,  &c.  in  the  other,  men, 
conferences,  integrity,  and  other  articles 
cf  fmall  value. 

Martyr  (a  bleffed.)  A  perjured  prince, 
who  broke  his  coronation  oath  in  the  molt 
material  of  all  points  ;  governed  without 
a  Parliament ;  imprifoned  his  fubjecls  for 
re fu ling  to  lend  him  money  ;  commenced 
a  falfe,  Villainous  profecution  for  high 
treafon  agaiaft  a  moil  deferving  nobleman 
(the  Earl  of  Briftol;)  reduced  his  people 
to  the  dreadful  necellity  of  taking  up  arms 
in  their  own  defence  ;  and  by  his  ihame- 
ful  diflimulation  when  he  was  ab©ut  to  be 
reftored,  left  it  utterly  impolTible  to  con- 
fide in  his  honour,  his  humanity,  or  his 


90  PISOTT'S 

oath,  but  drove  the  principal  officers  of 
the  adverfe  party,  in  their  own  defence, 
to  lit  in  trial  upon,  and  fentence  him  to 
death.  Truly,  a  very  blefTed  martyr  I 
Had  this  princ©  been  a  private  man,  who 
would  have  dared  to  fay  a  word  in  his  de- 
fence ? 

Majk  (of  Religion.)  Worn  by  Sir  Ri- 
chard Hill,  Thornton,  and  Wilberforce. 

Mercy  (of  the  law.)  See  the  fentences 
of  Muir,  Palmer,  &c.  Concealing  the 
murderers  of  young  Allen,  in  St.  George's 
Fields ;  the  pardon  of  Balf  and  Macquirck 
for  the  murder  of  Mr.  Clark  at'  Brentford, 
becaufe  he  polled  againft  the  miniilerial 
leech  ;  pardoning  the  two  Kennedys,  be- 
caufe their  fifter  was  a  proflitute  to  a  pam- 
pered tided  flave. 

Merit.  Out  of  fafhion  at  court  ;  an  ob- 
folete  word ;  and  when  met  feldom  re- 
warded, and  almofl  univerfally  shunned. 

Metapbyfics.     A  confufion  of  the  brain  ; 
Mr.  Wyndham  is  a  metaphyfician. 
,  Military  profejjion.     The  firfl  of  all  pro- 
feflions   in  a  free  country,  but  the    moft 
defpicable  one  in  all  that  are  othervvife. 

Million.  A  (mail  numerical  flgn  in  po- 
litical calculation.  Thus,  to  give  the  king 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       9! 

of  Sardinia  twenty-five  millions  flerling 
is  to  give  merely  a  trifle,  to  the  fupport  of 
the  jnft  and  neceffary  war!  rl'o  talk  of  ex- 
tirpating twenty-five  millions  of  French- 
men is  to  talk  of  a  very  eafy  and  practica- 
ble experiment. 

Minion.  A  courtier  ;  a  buffoon  ;  a 
dependant  ;  Henry  Dundas  ;  Jenkin- 
ion,  &c. 

The  drowfy  Tyrant,  by  his  minions  led. 
Devotes  to  kingly  rage  the  patriot  head. 

SWIFT. 

Minfftcr.  A  word  that  comprehends 
all  that  imagination  can  conceive  of  the 
corrupt,  the  treacherous,  the  cruel,  the 
vindictive,  and  the  oppreflive  ;  all  that  is 
calculated  to  make  human  nature  hang 
down  its  head  with  forrow  and  \vith  mame. 
Miniflers,  as  Bolingbroke  calls  them, 
((  are  die  corrupt  engrofTers  of  delegated 
Cf  authority."  They  muft  be  fervile,  and 
compliant  with  every  humour  and  caprice 
of  the  fovereign,  and  they  mud  learn  to 
dcfpife  the  rights,  and  undermine  the  pri- 
vileges, of  the  People.  If  they  can  do  this 
as  Pitt  has  done,  after  having  cajoled  them 
with  dcluiive  promifes  and  expectations, 
they  (land  a  furer  chance  of  obcaining  the 


<^2  f    I 

royal  patronage  and  favour ;  and  to  add 
cruelty  to  perfidy,  arrogance  to  oppreffi'on 
and  infolence  to  folly,  is  the  poliihed  per- 
fection of  the  minifterial  character.  Wai- 
pole  was  once  thought  to  be  too  corrupt 
for  a  minifter  ;  but  were  fuch  a  man  as 
Walpole  to  fucceed  Pitt,  the  utmoft  cor- 
ruption of  which  Walpole  was  capable 
•would  be  innocence  and  purity  itfelf  com- 
pared to  the  black  and  deteftable  policy, 
the  tricks,  the  bafenefs,  and  the  low  cun- 
ning, of  his  predeceiTor. 

Minifter.  I  do  not  know  how  it  is,  but 
I  never  liked  a  minifter  in  all  my  days. 
Our  friends  Oxford  and  Bolingbroke  I 
had  a  lincerc  value  for  in  their  private  fla- 
tions,  but  in  their  public  capacities  I 
looked  upon  them  both  as  little  better 
than  a  couple  of  rafcals.  In  fad,  I  be- 
lieve it  impoilible  for  any  minifter  to  be 
an  honeft  man  :  there  are  fifty  thoufand 
trap-doors,  from  the  very  nature  of  his 
office,  ia  which  it  is  next  to  iunpoflible  but 
his  integrity  muft  tumble.  All  winiflers, 
iis  well  as  all  priefls,  are  the  fame. 

SWIFT  to  POPE. 

Mitre.     An  emblem  of  fervility,  fuper- 
Aition,  and  bigotry.     Sec  Bifeops. 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       93 

Mob  (Church  and  King.)  A  fpecies  of 
regular  militia,  kept  in  pay  by  the  mi- 
niftry,for  the  protection  of  propertyagainfl 
Levellers  and  Republicans.  Some  writ- 
ers fuppofe  that  they  arc  a  conflituted 
tribunal,  to  take  a  fort  of  fummary  cogni- 
zance on  Jacobins,  Diilenters,  and  Pref- 
byterians  ;  and  that  they  form  an  impor- 
tant part  of  our  happy  Conftitution.  They 
were  very  ferviceable  at  Birmingham, 
Manchcfter,  and  other  places  ;  and  they 
are,  without  doubt,  the  mo  ft  loyal  portion 
of  his  Majefly's  fubjects. 

Monarch.  A  word  which  in  a  few  y^ars 
is  likely  to  be  obfoletc.  It  fignines  a 
man,  who  is  begotten  by  another  man,  to 
rule  over  millions  of  his  fellow-creatures  ; 
to  trample  upon  their  necks,  and  to  build 
his  own  aggrandifement  on  the  mifcry  and 
degradation  of  his  fubjecls.  They  are  al- 
ways the  mod  unhappy  and  miferabie  men 
of  the  community  ;  and  at  the  fame  time 
the  weakeft  and  the  molt  wicked.  The 
office  is  growing  into  difrepute,  and  man- 
kind are  daily  feeing  the  inconvenience 
and  folly  of  keeping  up  an  humbug,  which 
is  at  once  ridiculous  and  pernicious,  op- 
prelRvc  and  contemptible.  We  have  al- 


94  PIGOTT'S 

,  lowed  them  for  a  confiderable  time  cc  to 
<f  monarchife,  be  feared,  and  kill  with 
fc  looks  ;"  but  their  hour  is  expired,  and 
the  delufion  is  over.  In  a  iliort  period  of 
time,  the  nurfe,  or  the  parent,  will  ufe  the 
term  as  bugbear  for  their  children  : 
f(  Hum,  you  naughty  child,  the  monarch 
"  is  coming  ! '  *  Sic  iranfit  gloria  mundi  !  !  ! 
See  lVars>  Corruption,  &c. 

Monarchy.  Though  monarchies  may  d  if- 
fer  a  good  deal,  kings  differ  very  little. 
Thofe  who  are  abfolute  defire  to  continue 
fo  ;  and  thofe  who  are  not  endeavour  to 
become  fo  ;  hence  the  fame  maxirn  in  all 
courts. 

CHESTERFIELD. 

Multitude.  All  fwine,  according  to  the 
natural  hiftory  of  kings  and  nobles. 

Multitude  (Siximjb.)     Vid.  People. 

Murder.     See  lVary  &c,  &c. 

My  (pronoun.)  poffeffive,  if  expref- 
fing  the  property  ;  as  when  we  fay,  MY 
PEOPLE  !  my  horfe  /  MY  KINGDOM  !  my 
lands. 

N. 

Nab.  To  nab  a  cull  is  a  modern  vulgar, 
though  technical  term,  in  the  new-invent- 
ed fyflcm  of  crimping,  iignifying,  to 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       95 

kidnap  for  the  military  fervice  any  young 
man  who  is  imprudent  enough  after  dark 
to  frequent- the  infernal  flews  and  brothel- 
houfes,  with  which  the  well-policed  me- 
tropolis abounds. 

Nadir  (of  adverfity.)  In  the  political 
world,  means  that  miferable  ftate  we  have 
been  in  ever  fince  the  year  1760,  anterior 
to  which  period  we  were  comparatively  in 
the  zenith  of  prof  peri  ty. 

Ncenia.  The  goddefs  of  funerals.  The 
laft  funeral  me  attended  was  at  the  death 
of  Liberty.  She  died  unlamented  ;  and 
Mr.  Burke  was  the  undertaker  employed. 

Naiffarit.  In  political  heraldry,  is  ap- 
plied to  a  Tyrant 's  head,  which  is  fcen  if- 
iuing  out  of  the  midft  of  Britannia's  coat 
of  arms.  Under  it  is  G.  R. 

Nakednefs  of  the  Land.  To  be  feen  to 
great  advantage  any  where  in  Great  Bri- 
tain, efpecially  in  work-houfes,  houfes  of 
indufhy,  and  in  all  manufacturing  towns 
fince  the  war.  f<  To  fee  the  nakednefs  of 
f<  the  land  ait  thou  come." 

HOLY  BIBLE. 

Name.       When  applied    to  great  men, 

means  fame,  renown.     Thus  George  III. 

and  Dionyiius,  Burke  and  Thomas  Paine, 

j  Pitt  and  Robefpicrre,  Bifhop  Horfley  and 

I   iQiop  Bonner.  have  all  got  nam  es. 


96  P    I    G    O    T    T ' S 

Namslefs.  Th^  good  deeds  of  George, 
Pitt,  Dundas,  and  their  myrmidons  the 
clergy. 

Nap.  A  political  (lumber,  which  John 
Bull  is  continually  afflicted  with. 

Narcotic.  Producing  torpor  and  inac- 
tion. OppreiTive  proclamations,  gold 
duft,  and  leaden  bullets,  are  very  ftrong 
narcotics,  according  to  the  new  political 
pharmacopoeia. 

Narrow-minded.     See  Houfe  of  Hanover. 

Nation.  A  collective  term,  arbitrarily 
ufed  for  a  fmall  number  of  people,  who 
againftthe  confcnt  of  a  large  number,  agree 
to  fubmit  themfelves  and  their  pofterity 
for  ever,  to  the  unlimited  and  uncontroul- 
cd  tyranny  of  one  man. 

National  Debt.  Three  hundred  and 
thirty-one  millions  of  pounds  flerling, 
which  isincreafing  everyday,  and  with  it, 
as  we  are  told,  ourhappinefsandprofperity. 
To  give  fome  idea  of  this  f um,  if  it  was 
laid  down  in  guineas  clofe  together  in  a 
line,  it  would  extend  upwards  of  fix 
thoufand  miles  in  length.  If  it  was  laid 
down  in  millings  it  would  extend  upwards 
of  five  times  round  the  world,  and  would 
require  fe verity  thoufand  horfes  to  draw 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.  9.7 

it,  at  the  rate  of  fifteen   hundred  weight 
«ach  horfe. 

Natural  Enemies  (to  England.)  A  na- 
tion that  governs  itfelf  without  a  king, 
upon  the  principles  of  honour,  virtue  and 
eternal  juftice. 

Nave  of  a  wheel.  The  mod  efTential 
parts  of  the  political  wheel.  Thus  the 
King,  Lords,  and  Commons  are  all  naves. 

Navy.  A  floating  hell,  confifting  of 
an  afiembly  of  huge,  unwieldy,  wooden 
caflles,  well  ftored  with  artillery,  gun- 
powder, chain  fhot,  cannon  balls,  grape 
ihot,  bombs,  hand-grenades,  flugs,  leaden 
bullets,  fharp-angled  pieces  of  iron,  flints, 
Iglafs,  old  rufty  nail?,  falt-petre,  brimflonc, 
jcombuftiblc  canniftcrs,  and  every  engine 
of  deftruclion  that  will  do  execution. 
Molt  of  the  failors  who  conduct  and  ma- 
nage thefc  ufeful  machines,  are  tojn  by 
force  from  their  wives  and  families,  to 
a  (fid  monarchs  in  executing  this  only  and 
uniVerfal  objeft  of  their  whole  lives, 
viz.  the  extermination  of  the  humin  fpe- 
cics. 

Nebuchadnezzar.  He  was  an  hirfute 
king,  and  like  other  brute  beads,  ate  grafs 
and  potatoes,  whence  the  name  of  potcn  * 
F 


o8  p  i  ©  o  T   T*S«- 

rate  (vide  Lemon.)  It  is  thought  by 
phyiiclogifls,  that  it  would  greatly  con- 
duce to  the  welfare  of  his  people,  if  the 
king  of  Georgia  was  turned  out  to  grafs. 
before  the  meeting  of  every  feflion  of  Par- 
liament. 

NeceJJary  War.  A  war  carried  on  by* 
kings,  againfl  the  liberty  and  happincfs  o£ 
mankind. 

Neck.  That  {lender  part  that  is  fituated 
between  the  head  and  trunk  of  the  body^ 
on  which  the  gentle  axe,  and  gentler  guil- 
lotine, glided  acrofs,  and  produced  a  Jo-, 
lution  of  continuity,  in  the  perfons  of  the 
Tyrants  Charles  the  Firil  and  Louis  the 
Laft. 

<f  Hear  it  not,  Duncan  for  it  is  a  knell 
Cf  Thatfummons  tbec  to  heaven  or  to  hell/" 

MACBETH. 

Necromancer.  Mr.  Pitt,  who,  by  means 
.of  charms  and.  fpells,  and  his  opiate  wand^ 
conjures  up  the  Houie  of  Common*  and 
the  Privy  Council  to  his  opinions.  For 
many  years,  by  the  force  of  his  incanta- 
tions, he  kept  Liberty  bound  up  in  a  lit- 
tle bottle,  containing  a  foliation  of  gold  in 
ihcftfforous  acid>  extracted  from  the  brows 
of  the  labouring  poor.  This  bottle  \va* 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.  99 

"kept  in  the  Treafury  ;  and  Mr,  Windham, 
going  there  one  day,  very  thirfiy,  hazily 
opened  the  bottle  fora  draught  of  this  pre- 
cious aqua-vitse.  The  <n;oddcfs  immedi- 
ately efcaped  and  fled  to  France,  on  the 
I4thof  July,  1789,  where  fhe  has  taken 
up  a  perennial  abode,  and  never  means  to 
reviiit  thefc  inhofpitable  fhores. 

Needy.  The  virtuous,  the  honeft,  the 
induftnous,  and  the  incorrupt  part  of  the 
community. 

Ne  exeat  regno-  In  defpotic  countries 
this  is  a  writ  to  reft  rain  thofe  who  arc  op- 
prefled  from  leaving  the  kingdom.  This 
is  one  of  thofe  arbitrary  meafures  that  none 
but  a  tyrant  would  make  ufe  of,  and  none 
but  a  bafe-born  abjecl:  people  would  fub- 
rnit  t®. 

Nefafti  dies.  Thofe  days  wherein -it  is 
not  allowed  to  adminifter  juftice.  This 
has  been  the  cafe  ever  fince  Kenyon  pre- 
diided  in  the  court  of  Kind's  Bench. 

Negotiation.  A  treaty  or  truce  between 
two  royal  butchers  who  are  at  war  with 
each  other,  to  fufpend  hoftilitics,  until  the 
moft  expeditious  of  them  have  recruited 
his  ftrength  with  men,  ihips,  arms,  and  am- 
munition enough  to  renew  the  maffacre 
v.  ith  freili  vigour  of  brutality. 


ICO  ?    I    G    O    T    T  *  S 

Negro.  A  black  beaft  of  the  Manilla 
clafs,  with  flat  nofe,  thick  lips,  woolly 
head,  and  ivory  teeth>  and  with  a  face 
fomewhat  rcfembling  the  human.  He  is 
a  biped,  but  clearly  not  a  human  being,  as 
he  is  neither  a  Chriftian,  nor  can  he  talk 
Englifh.  This  animal  is  very  ufeful  in 
our  fettlements  in  the  Weft  Indies,  and 
admirably  fupplies  the  place  of  horfes, 
affes,  mules,  and  oxen,  in  cultivating  the 
produce  of  thofe  inclement  iflands.  The 
rlefh  of  their  young  is  very  white  and  ten,, 
der  when  fricafeed,  which  the  planters  in 
general  prefer,  for  delicacy  of  flavour,  to 
that  of  the  adults,  -which  is  rather  tough 
and  fibrous,  from  exeefs  of  labour  and 
coarfediet. 

Neighbourly.  To  fubfidize  Pruflia,  Hol- 
land, Auftria,  and  the  King  of  Sardinia. 
To  giveflavery  to  the  Poles,  and  to  exter- 
minate the  French. 

Nem.  Con.  Is  applied  when  a  motion 
or  bill  pafTes  unanimoufly,  and  there  can- 
not be  found  one  honeft  man  to  ftem  the 
torrent  of  oppreflion,  which  flows  from  a 
royal  fource,  through  the  muddy,  polluted 
channel  of  an  arrogant  minifter. 

Nero.  A  King  during  the  American* 
war,  there  was  publiihsd  a  caricature 


P  G  L  I  T  I  C  A  t     2>I  t  T.I  -O  N  A,  K  ,V ;.    I  p  I 

print  of  a  reign  ng  tyrant;  in  frfer  ha-ftrt'of 
a  Sultan.  Behold  the  man.  !  The  name 
of  Nero  has  been  proverbially  applied  to 
him,  in  common  with  other  tyrants. 

Neft-egg.  A  fnug  finecure  place  under 
Government,  incapable  of  improvement 
by  extortion  and  fraud  ;  fuch  as  Admiral 
of  the  Cinque  Ports,  4Ooo/.  a  year. 
keeper  of  the  King's  Hawks,  I374/.  a 
year,  &c.  &;c.  &c.  too  tedious  and  too 
dif  graceful  to  mention, 

Nelbcrmoft  Hell.  The  country  feat  of 
Loughborough,  Dundas,  Pitt,  and  the 
whole  crew- of  rafcals  round  the  throne. 

Neu! nil  Fewer -s.  Thole  iiates  which 
do  not  perfbnally  enter  the  theatre  of 
Arar,  but  which  promote  this  infernal  trade 
by  fecret  plots,  machinations  and  confpi- 
racies.  See  -the  hiftory  of  the  reign  of 
George  the  Jaft;  "What  !  flab  a  man  in 
<f  the  dark  !  Oh  !  villain  !  villain  1" 

Newfangled  Doctrines.  Thole  which 
have  a  tendency  to  promote  virtue,  hap- 
pinefs,  and  juilice  to  an  oppreiicd  and  mi- 
Arable  people . 

Newgatt.  The  Englidi  Baflile.  A  large 
handfome  (lone  building  elegantly  fittc  \ 

o  *          o  J 

\ip  for  the  reception   of  lards  and 


3Q2  T    I    G    O    T.   T'S 

pcckets,  phyfidans-arrd  (trumpets,  honcft 
citizens  and  foot-pads,  Jacobites  and  Ja- 
ccbincs,  who  form  the  bulk  of  the  nation, 
under  the  name  of  DiiTenters  and  Ami- 
Minifterialifts. 

<f  Clauii  in  tenebris  cum  mserore  &  luctu, 
"  morte  graviorum,  vitam  exigunt." 

ft  Yet  think  us  not  of  foul  fo  tame, 

cf  Which  no  repeated  wrongs  inflame." 

Newfpapers.  Journals,  for  the  mod 
part,  under  the  immediate  patronage  and 
direction  of  the  rninifter.  It  has  been  com- 
puted that  about  IQCO/.  a  year  \vill  buy 
up.  a  paper  ;  the  editor  of  \rhich,  for  this 
conlideration  is  bound,  in  a  contract  to 
calumniate  indifcriminately  the  whole  na- 
tion, viz.  the  Friends  of  Liberty,  by  the 
name  of  Levellers  ;  and  the  King,  Lords, 
and  Commons,  and  all  the  friends  of  the 
iriinifter,  by  the  name  of  Patriots  and 
honeft  men. 

Nick  (Old).  A  cloven  footed,  three- 
tailed,  pert,  prim,  pleader  of  the  North- 
ern race,  who  prefides  in  the  Tartarus  of 
England — the  Chancery. 

Nick-name.  To  call  the  king,  fapiens  5 
the  judges,  probi  j  and  the  biihops,  lu 
tcrati. 


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Niggard.  A  king  who  has  defrauded 
his  needy  and  ftarving  fubjecls  of  nine 
millions  of  pounds  flerling.  {(  Mercy  on 
|cc  us,  Mr.  Guelph,  where  do  you  cxped; 
icf  to  go  to  when  you  die  ?" 

Nim  the  Cits.  A  technical  term  among 
crimps.  Vide  Nab  the  Cull. 

Ninny.  One  of  the  names  of  John 
bull. 

No,  no  !  Echoed  from  the  Treafury 
[Bench  in  the  Houfe,  and  fome  times  hear, 
hear  !  to  confufe  or  drown  the  voice  of 
any  fpeaker  who  is  guilty  of  uttering  fome 
junwelcomc  truths  in  the  hearing  of  the 
people  in  the  gallery. 

Nobility.  A  titled  order  of  men^  fo  call- 
jtd  for  their  hereditary  profligacy  of  man- 
jners,  abandoned  principles,  and  infernal 
depravity.  Colled  if  you  can,  in  one  hu^ 
man  form,  the  alTociations  of  infolence, 
ignorance,  pride,  ignoble  ambition,  mean- 
ncfs  of  the  bafcft  kind,  fordid  viciouf- 
nefs,  and  every  thing  which  is  difhonour- 
able,  loathfome,  and  depraved,  and  you 
may  form  fome  faint  idea  of  a  modern  no- 
bleman. 

Nobility.  Acquired  nobility  is  a  difeafe 
\vhich  is  made  to  pafs  in  the  blood.  <f  The 


PIGOTT'S 

nobility,  which  is  and  always  will  be  the 
f^nurfery  and  hot-bed  of  the  fatcllitcs  of 
6f*defpotifm,  has  found  in  its  crimes  its 
<(  ownpuniihment." 

MlRABEAU. 

Nobility  (privileges  of  the).  There  \vai 
a  time  when  the  German  lords  reckoned 
among  their  privileges,  that  of  robbery  on 
the  highways  of  their  own  territory.  In 
Scotland  they  had  a  right  to  enjoy  the  firft 
fruits  of  all  maidens.  Every  where  the 
lords  fold  the  bondmen,  or  villains  as  they 
did  animals,  with  the  field  where  they 
lived,  and  which  they  cultivated.  The 
feudal  fervitude  ftill  exifts  in  Ruffia,  Po- 
land, Germany  and  Hungary.  And  there 
wereconfiderable  reliques  of  the  feudal 
"fyftem  in  France  ,  and  there  ftill  remains 
fomc  particles  in  almoft  every  Hate  in 
Europe.  Nothing  has  degraded  and  de- 
bafed  the  human  fpecies  ib  much  as  Feu- 
dal 'Tyranny  /  and  what  remains  of  this 
mod  dreadful  plague,  is  what  Mr.  Burke 
calls  THE  CORINTHIAN  CAPITAL  OF  PO- 
LISHED SOCIETY. 

Nobleman.  One  that  willies  you  fhould 
feek  in  the  roots  for  the  fruit  which  flioulJ 
be  fouad  on  the  branches. 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY. 

Nod.  A  quick  declination  of  the  head, 
by  which  the  minifter  pcrjuades  the  Houie 
of  Commons  to  a  concurrence  with  him 
in  opinion. 

Noli  me  tavgeve.  Touch  me  not — the 
motto  to  Pitt's  coat  of  arms. 

Nominative  cafe.  The  firft  cafe  of  de- 
clinable nouns.  HARRIS. 

George  and  Pitt  are  nominatives,  be- 
caufe  they  are  both  in  the  jlrjl  cafe,  and 
both  declinable  s  but  they  are  nominatives 
abjolute. 

Non-conformifts.  All  thofe  factious  and 
cvil-difpofed  perlons  who  refift  "  the  Op- 
"prcffor's  wrong/' and  will  not  conform 
to  a  fyftern  of  intolerance  and  injuftice. 
"  Coftoro  hanno  un  animo  in  Piazza,  & 
Cf  uno  in  Palazza." 

Nenjurors.  Thofe  who  fooliflily  tem- 
ple to  fwear  damnation  to  thtmfelves. 
See  Papifts. 

Nonplus.  The  ftate  of  Pitt's  mind  \\hen 
fober,  and  on  the  opening  of  the  budget. 

Noofe.  A  running  knot,  which  is  ca- 
pable of  fitting  necks  of  all  fizes.  Ve- 
ry convenient  for  the  people  to  have  by 
them  when  fummary  juftice  isadminifter- 
cd  to  wicked  kings  and  corrupt  miniflera* 


IO6  P    1     G     O    T    T  '  3 

Nootka  Sound.  Famous  for  the  produce 
of  a  few  cat-fkins,  which  we  quarrelled 
about  with  the  Spaniards.  But  happily 
for  this  country,  our  able  minifter  pre- 
vented a  war  by  an  armament  which  coil 
only  four  millions  !  "  Incidit  in  Schyl- 
**  lam  cupiens  vitare  Charybdim." 

Nofe.  A  cartilaginous  protuberance  in 
the  human  face,  to  which  (in  parliament 
men)  is  fixed  a  fmall  wire,  for  the  accom- 
modation of  the  minifter  to  guide  them  at 
his  pleafure. 

Notes  (Bank).  Small  flips  of  thin,  filky 
paper,  on  which  are  engraven  flrong  and 
forcible  arguments  in  favour  of  arbitrary 
power.  They  have  been  much  ufed  of 
late,  and  pofTefs  wonderful  powers  of  con- 
viction. It  is  death,  however,  for  the 
Swinifh  Multitude  to  take  ^"thefe  argu- 
ments. 

Nevitiatc.  The  time  in  which  the  ru- 
diments of  corruption  are  learned,  exem- 
plified in  young  Jenkinfon  and  young 
Canning. 

Nuifance.     Vide  the  Clergy. 

Numfenlls.  Judge  Afhhurft,  Judge 
Rook,  Garrpw  and  the  Punkirk  Hero- 


POLITICAL     DICTION  ART. 

Nuncio.  A  mefTenger  from  the  army 
to  inform  us  how  far  our  troops  have  re- 
treated, and  how  many  victims  are  left  un- 
facrificed,  but  ready  for  killing. 

Nurfery.     The   court,    for  rogues  and 
thieves,  pimps  and  parafites. 
(X 

Obedience.  That  obfequioufnefs  and 
blind  fubmiflion  which  in  countries  on 
the  decline  of  freedona  rwcn  in  power  de- 
mand from  the  people.  When  Paul  le 
Mefurier  demanded  (according  to  the 
ancient  cuftorn of  his  nation)  houfekeep- 
crs  to  imprifon  their  lodgers,  he  demand- 
ed political  obedience. 

Obedience  (pqflivc).  To  put  your  per- 
fons  in  prifon,  your  necks  in  the  halter, 
and  fuffer  yourfelves  to  be  fent  from  your 
country,  to  fight  and  be  butchered  againjl 
your  wills ,  but  according  to  the  will  of  your 

rant^  and  pay  heavy  taxes,  for  all  this 
ABUSE,  without  murmuring,  is  PASSIVE 
OBEDIENCE  in  reality. 

0 economy.  A  pitiful  manner  of  furni fil- 
ing the  royal  kitchen,  and  a  profufe  me- 
thod of  expending  the  money  of  the 
nation. 

One.  Among  men  you  fee  the  ninety 
aad  nine  toiling  to  gcther  a  heap  of  fuper- 


168  F    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

fluities  for  ONI,  getting  nothing  for  them., 
felves  all  the  while  but  a  little  of  t  . 
coarfeft  of  the  provilions  which  their  own 
labour  produces  ;  and  this  ONE  too,  often- 
times the  feebleft  and  worft  of  the  whole 
fet,  a  child,  a  woman,  a  madman  or  a  fool  / 
looking  quietly  on,  while  they  fee  the 
fruitof  all  their  labour  fpent  or  fpoiled;  and 
if  one  of  them  take  or  touch  a  particle  of  it, 
the  others  join  againft  and  hang  him  for 
the  theft.  Vide  King. 

ARCH.  PALEY. 

Qppofitiw.  It  is  faid  that  in  England, 
there  is  oppojition  to  every  thing  except 
Shakefpeare  ;  but  (hortly  we  may  like  wife 
except  the  Government. 

Oppofition.  A  fet  of  men  leagued  ta 
thwart  the  meafures  of  the  reigning  minif- 
ter  ;  contriving  falfe  ftandards  of  popular 
freedom  to  the  nation,  and,then  deceiving 
them  ;  pretending  to  facrifice  their  inter- 
eft  to  the  People's  good,  but  in  '&Stfacri\ 
firing  nothing  but  principles  and  veracity, 
The  nation  ought  in  golden  letters,  to 
place  before  their  eyes  the  fable  of  the 
lark  and  her  young  ones. 

Orator-  In  the  prefent  age,  the  mem- 
ber with  ftrong  lungs,  a  ft!  fled  by  an  exten- 


POLITICAL    DICTION  A  K  Y. 

live  memory,  retailing  y^Aftfw  of  Cicero 
&y  inch  of  candle  in  St.  Stephen's  Chaptl. 
<(t  Happy  the  man  who  hath  his  quiver  full 
«  of  them." 

Orgies*  The  Bacchanalian  rcpafl  of  Bil- 
ly the  Tory,  and  Scotch  Harry,  during  re- 
cefs  of  buiinefs  ;  and  of  infinite  ufe  to  fe- 
cure  them  from  French  Atheiim. 

Orthodoxy.  The  adherence  to  thofe  te- 
nets and  dogr*  "N  by  which  the  animal  is 
enabled,  by  patronage,  corruption,  and 
influence,  to  extend  his  views  from  the 
country  church  to  the  fummitof  the  cathe- 
dral. 

Ojlcntatlon.  The  art  of  fecuring  atten- 
tion by  blue  ribbands,  embroidered  gar- 
ters, journeys  to  St.  Paul's  and  Wcymouth 
cxcuriions. 

Overjigbt*  The  retreat  of  able  gene- 
rals from  before  the  walls  and  battlements 
of  Dunkirk  ;  of  experienced  comman- 
ders from  Tournay  ;  and  brave  patriots 
from  Toulon  ! 

Overtures  of  Peace.  Hiftory  has  deli-« 
vered  to  us  the  quarrels  of  potentates,  and 
the  vices  of  monarchs;  it  hath  informed 
us  of  the  mean  arts  ufed  by  princes,  when 
war  has  no  longer  become  prad:icablea 
G 


yio  PXGOTT'S 

either  from  the  emptinefs  of  the  treafury, 
or  from  the  remonilrance  of  their  fubjecls* 
At  this  period,  kings  complimented  each 
Other,  reftored  the  conquered  territory, 
and  ended  where  they  began.  In  the  pre- 
fent  time,  different  "overtures  muft  be 
adopted  ;  new  language  had  recourfe  to. 
We  are  contending,  not  indeed  with  the 
vicious  Louis  or  the  haughty  Charles  ;  we 
are  warring  with  a  grearfckd  free  people, 
\vho  will  alike  difdain  the  artifice  of  court* 
and  the  hypocrify  of  fbitefmen.  Our 
overtures,  when  \ve  relmquiili  the  fyflem 
of  conqueft,  muft  be  open,  manly,  and 
generous. 

(Jitlcajl.  Such  is  the  fate  of  the  man, 
\vhoie  reputation  bore  his  name  to  the 
clofec  of  every  politician  in  Europe  ;  fuch 
defcrvedly  the  lot  of  that  general,  who, 
entiufled  with  the  fafety  of  the  French 
nation,  iclinquiflied  his  honour  for  merce- 
nary reward.  He  trufred  to  the  princi- 
ples of  Cobourg,  of  Clairfayt,  of  ariftocra- 
cy  ! — truiled  to  ariftocracy  !  how  weak 
his  mind,  how  futile  his  experience,  who 
•uxTifcd  nobles  of  virtue,  integrity,  orve- 
jacity.  May  the  paths  of  .Dumourier  be 
lae  'ciilis  o-i 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.         Ill 
P 

Pacification.  By  Dr.  Johnfon,  termed 
the  art  of  making  peace.  In  modern  ca- 
binets, this  word  has  no  accurate  definiti- 
.on  ;  in  fad:,  by  them  it  is  an  arc  frequent- 
ly talked  of,  but  feldom  p  radii  fed. 

Pageant.  A  fpcctacle,  by  the  lure  of 
which  a  minifter  may  draw  money  for 
himfelf  and  his  friends,  by  amuiing  the 
public  mind  /  fuch,  for  initance,  was  the 
Span  i  fli  armament  in  1790;  fuch  the 
Radian  armament  in  1791  ;  and  whilft 
.the  People  of  England  tamely  fuifer  their 
/privileges  to  be  retrained,  their  rights 
•pillaged,  and  immunities  plundered,  the 
lame  pageants  will  be  erected,  and  the 
ft  i  n  e  i  p e clac  Its  d  i  fp  1  ay  ed . 

Painite.  Every  individual  who  will 
not  iign  his  tell  in  Mr.  Reevcs's  Aflbci- 
ation ;  will  ROC  condefcend  to  kils  the 
tniiiidcrial  rod,  held  out  to  punifli  him, 
or  agrcr  to  arm  for  the  fake  of  a  conilitu- 
tion  fer vilely  adulized,  and  poinpouily  ex- 
tol led. 

Palace.  The  ufual  reiidcnce  of  mo- 
narchs,  icigniag  (to  quote  an  elegant  au- 
thor) in  cofitemp:  of  the  People.  Could 
vc  unite  in  -.v.c  i..!  TI,  -tlit  luxury  and  vo- 


in  PIGOTT'S 

luptuoufnefs  of  aldermen,  the  meannefs 
and  avarice  of  pariih  officers,  and  the  ig- 
norance aad  icrvilicy  .of  courtiers;  we 
Ihould  form  a  jufl  conception  of  the  lodg- 
ing and  inhabitants  of  a  royal  palace  ! — in 
Spain  !  !  ! 

Pannic.  Political  inflances  may  bfc 
ihe\vn  in  the  examples  of  the  Duke 
of  Richmond's  fortifications,  Edmund 
Burkc's  prophecies.  Mr.  Pitt's  crufade, 
and  Judge  Afhhurfl's  mild  fentences  for 
fedition. 

Pantheon.  Formerly  ufed  for  the  pur- 
pofes,  of  fuperftition,  in  a  collection  of  fa- 
bulous deities  and  ennobled  gods  ;  lately 
ufed  on  the  continent  for  the  reception  of 
falfe  virgins,  myfterious  Jefufes,  and  pre- 
tended faints  ;  at  prefent  exalted  to  the 
nobler  deiign  of  conveying  to  poflerity  the 
names  of  great  men,  who  have  embellifh- 
ed  fcience,  decried  fuperftition,  or  have 
promoted  the  belt  interefts  of  man. 

Papacy.  Almoft  forgotten,  until  the 
foldiers  of  England  protected  the  offices 
and  dignities  of  the  church  of  Rome  ; — • 
until  convents  were  permitted  in  this  Pro- 
teflant  and  religious  country  ;  and  until 
the  Bifhop  of  Rome,  the  deicendant  of  St. 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.        IIJ 

Peter,  gave  his  holy  benediction  upon  the 
united  Standards  of  Auiiria,  Prufiia,  Hol- 
land, and  Spain,  to  curb  anarchy,  and  re- 
cftablifh  defpotifm. 

Pardon.  In  politics,  denotes  the  for- 
givenefs  of  an  individual,  'who,  bel/ingall 
his  prior  profeflions  of  p-itriotifm  and  juf- 
tice,  forfakes  the  people's  caufe  for  a  mi- 
niiueri-.il  bribe,  and  is  feated  on  the  right 
hand  of  Billy  Pitt,  ivbofe  mercy  endureth- 
for  ever. 

Parliament^  A  word  founding  far,  and 
fignifyiag  little  ;  formerly,  it  was  freely 
eonfidered  as  a  check  upon  executive  pow- 
er, or  as  the  bank  which  prevented  the 
inundation  of  arbitrary  caprice  ;  at  prc- 
fent  it  ferves  the  purpofe  of  miniftry,  by 
fanclioning  thofe  meafures  which  their  ig- 
norance or  vice  has  performed.  It  gave 
our  ally  Prufiia  money  for  which  he  is  not 
accountable ;  it  repaid  the  expenfive  ar- 
maments voted  ufelefs  by  the  nation  ;  and 
it  gave  fanclion  to  a  war  difaflrous  in  its 
efrech,  and  ruinous  in  its  confequences. 
Such  are  your  Parliaments ;  fuch  your 
Reprefentatives. 

Par/on.     Formerly   a   refpeclable   cha 
fader,  pracflifing  the  mild  precepts  of  th~ 


H4  p  I 

Chriftian  religion,  of  which  clafs  a  few  re- 
main. At  prcfent  it  denotes  an  animal 
vifiting  the  univcrfity,  fubfcribing  to  ar- 
ticles he  has  not  yet  digefted,  refigning  the 
right  of  reafoning,  coniidering  the  Defen- 
der of  our  faith  at  1  cart  as  infallible  as  the  Rc- 
mifh  Bifhop,  and  finally  beholding  with 
enraptured  eye  the  lawn  lleevcs  and  cro-1 
fier  of  his  Holinefs  the  Archbifhop  of 
Canterbury. 

Partition.  The  partition  of  Poland  by 
the  three  combined  crowned  thieves,  is  th 
mod  famous  partition  of  modern  timci 
That  of  France,  which  was  thought  fo  ea 
fy,  notwithilandingall  the  DukeofBrunf 
wick's  fkill  in  tadtics,  ilill  remains  a  pro 
blcm. 

Partition, — well  exemplified  in  Polanc 
by  the  Royal  Gaoler  of  Europe,   and  the' 
Northern  Bear  ;  at  prcfent  a  word  rather  in 
difrcpute,  fee  the    failure  of  this  pradicc 
in  a  neighbouring   Republic. 

Partnerftip.  This  word,  by  L'Eftrangp 
is  called,  rf  the  union  of  two  or  more  in 
«  the  lame  trade/'  £>ucre.  Will  the 
firm  of  thchrufe  of  Meflrs.  Auflria,  Pruf- 
fia,  and  Co.  fatisfy  the  demands  of  their 
creditors  ;  or,  where  mufl  they  apply  for 
a  ftatute  of  bankruptcy  ? 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY. 

Party.  There  ncvejr  was  any-  party  in 
which  themoft  ignorant  were  not  the  moil 
violent ;  for  a  bee  is  not  a  bufier  animal 
than  a  blockhead.  However,  fuch  inflru- 
roents  are  neceilkry  ;to  politicians ;  and 
perhaps  it  may  be  with  dates  as  with 
clocks,  which  muft  have  fome  dead  weight 
hanging  at  them  to  help  and  regulate  the 
motion  of  the  finer  and  more  ufeful  parts. 

SWIFT. 

Parly  Jury.  Means,  in  law,  a  jury  of 
h?*lf  foreigners,,half  natives  ;  in  politi- 
cal practice,  it  means  a  Winterbotham 
jury,  *****,  *****,  cetera  defcunt. 

Pajlimc.  The  fport  or  amufernent  by 
which  fome  kings  are  diverted  ;  as  by  ar- 
maments, battles,  fieges,  and  mallacres. 

•Patience.  Is  a  virtue  faid  to  belong 
peculiarly  to  cuckolds  and  to  affcs,  in  com- 
pany with  whom  we  with  juilice  may  place 
the  People  of  England. 

Patriot.  Not  the  individual  feeking 
perfonal  emolument  by  temporary  profef- 
fions,  nor  the  oppoiitionift  who  votes  the 
fupplies  for  the  war  he  condemns.  It  is  the 
man,  "  juftum  &:  propofiti  tenax,"  wbo 
dares  be  bun?ft  in  the  tuorft  of  times  •  whom 
no  threats  can  difcgurage  ;  whom  ro 
temptatioa  can  fubdue  ;  who  [canjbehoid 


Ii  6  PTGOTT'S 

^he  tide  of  popular  opinion  ebb  and  fic^ 
•without  a  dereliction  of  principle  ;  who 
can,if  called  upon>  facrifice  even  life  it- 
fclf  for  the  good  of  his  country. 

Patriotifw.  In  the  times  oi  thcRcmnns, 
it  cpnlifted  in  iacnficing  upon  the  altar? 
of  the  country  all  who  \verc  not  P  on  tans 
under  the  name  of  Barbarians.  Among 
the  Engliib,  it  conilfts  in.  treating  as 
enemies  all  who  are  not  Lngliili,  under  the 
name  of  Foreigners. 

Patron.  One  \vho  countenances  the 
apCihite,  protects  the  informer,  and  fup- 
ports  the  dependant ;  whole  patronage 
extends  not  to  the  friend  of  virtue,  the 
oppofer  of  tyranny,  or  the  lover  of  juf- 
tiee  ;  but,  on  the  contrary,  fecks  to  enrich 
the  man  \vho  fells  his  country  for  a  bribe, 
cr  courts  the  wretch  who  difowns  his 
principles  for  the  pavilion  of  ambition- 

Peace.  To  a  nation,  is  as  contentment 
to  an  individual;  it  is  a  gentle  imam 
running  with  fmooth  and  eafy  current, 
fertilizing  the  land  through  v»  hichit  iiows 
and  enriching  the  country  whofe  labours 
have  made  it  navigable  ;  it  is  the  trunk 
of  the  vail  oak,  furniming  made  to  the 
flocks,  and  food  for  the  cattle  ;  it  is  fo  ne- 
ceilary  an  ingredient  in  the  mixture  etna- 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.        11^ 

tional  happinefs,  that  without  it  no  peo- 
ple can  be  flourifhing  or  virtuous  any 
more  than  the  rich  individual  can  procure 
cafe  without  contentment,  or  happincf* 
without  virtue. 

Pf  acock.  A  fowl  eminent  for  the  beau- 
ty of  his  tail,  and  deformity  of  his  voice  ; 
in  other  words,  a  great  parliamentary  ora- 
tor, whofe  volubility  amufcs,  but  whofc 
arguments  difpleafe,  and  whole  arrogance 
difgufts. 

Peculator.  A  robber  of  the  public  mo- 
ney. Is  not,  however,  the  robber  of  pub- 
lic freedom  equally  deformed  ;  and  the 
filcher  of  national  reputation  equally  cul- 
pable. 

Who  fteals  my  purfe  (teals  trafh  ; 

'Tis  nought ;  'twas  mine,  'twas  his, 

And  has  been  (lave  to  thoufands, 

But  he  that  filches  from  me  my  good 
name; 

Steals  that  which  nought  enriches  him. 

Bat  makes  me  poor  indeed. 

SHAKESPEARE.' 

Peerage.  That  hereditary  body  of  mea 
to  whom  the  public  virtue,  and  national 
freedom  are  entruftcd.  Thefc  guardians 
•f  public  liberty,  thcfe  political  prieit*. 


1 18  PIGOTT'S 

have  indeed  been  the  nomina  rerum,  the  but- 
terflies of  the  hour.     Thus, 

********,  of  Commons'  Houfc  aftupid 
wretch, 

Whofe  mind  to  A,  B,  C,  can   fcarccly 
ilretch, 

Has,  by  a  monarch's  all-creating  \vord, 

Become  a  very  decent  lord. 

Peerage.  In  former  days  an  honour  con- 
ferred upon  fuch  as  had  rendered  them- 
felves  confpicuous  for  their  merit,  and 
eminent  for  their  virtues;  but  in  the  more 
modern  ages  it  has  been,  in  general,  the 
ulages  of  venality  and  corruption,  and  a 
diilmclion  not  to  bepurchafedat  a  fmaller 
price  than  everlaihng  infamy  and  dif-. 
grace. 

Peers.  The  generality  of  Peers,  far 
from  fupporting >  themfelves  in  aftate  of 
independent  greatnefs,  are  but  too  apt  to 
iall  into  an  oblivion  of  their  proper  digni- 
ty, and  to  run  headlong  into  an  abjcdllcr- 
vitude. 

BURKE. 

Pfnfion.  In  England  it  is  generally 
underilood  to  mean  pay  given  to  a  flate 
hireling  for  treafon  to  his  country. 

JOHNSON. 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.        I  19, 

Pen/ion.  This  word  has  been  well  de- 
fined by  Addifon,  to  be  Cf  an  allowance 
*(  made  to  any  one  without  an  equiva- 
lent." Had  not  penfions,  as  it  were, 
obtained  a  fancdon  by  long  and  continued 
ufage,  we  fhould  have  decried  the  mea- 
fure  as  an  abfurdlty  ;  and  the  man  who 
fhould  have  propofed  it,  more  fitted  for  the 
cells  of  Bedlam  than  the  departments  of 
the  (late.  It  is  however  with  civil  abfur- 
dities  as  with  religious  ceremonies,  whofe 
fetters  are  firfl  made  eafy  by  chaplets  of 
rofes,  and  afterwards  retained  by  prefcrip- 
tive  rights.  The  time,  indeed,  may  arrive 
when  the  ceremonies  of  the  latter,  and  the 
abfurdities  of  the  former,  may  moulder  in- 
to dufl  and  be  known  only  from  the  re- 
cording page  of  iiiftory. 

Penjioner.  A  Have  of  flate,  hired  by  a 
ftipend  to  obey  his  mailer. 

JOHNSON. 

In  Britain's  Senate  he  a  feat  obtains, 

And  one  more  Pevfioner  St.   Stephen's 
gains. 

POPE. 

Peofle.     It  is  "he  People  which  compofc 
the  human  fptxv.::.     Ail  which  is  not  the 
G 


1 2O  P    I    C    O    T    T  '  S 

People,  is  of  fo  little  confequence  that  it 
is  not  worth  the  trouble  of  counting. 

ROUSSEAU. 

People.  The  commonality ;  the  vulgar; 
the  Sivinijb  Multitude  ;  or  whatever  the 
enrolled  race  may,  in  their  infinite  goodnefs 
and  mercy  >  be  pleafed  to  term  them. 

Permit.  A  final!  piece  of  paper,  for 
which  at  Harwich,  you  pay  13.*.  4^.  to  be 
divided  between  the  twenty -Jour  electors 
of  that  paltry  borough,  for  the  liberty  of 
pairing  and  re-paffmg  from  thence  to 
Helvcetlluys. 

Pcrjeculion.  We  refervc  this  defini- 
tion until  we  can  colleft  the  experienced 
authorities  of  Eaton,  Winterbotham, 
Muir,  and  Palmer.  We  promife  its  ap- 
pearance in  the  next  edition  of  this  Dic- 
tionary. 

Perspicuity.  We  refer  our  readers  to  a 
vorkjufl  publifbed  by  Sir  James  Murray, 
compofed  in  Flinders  ;  fpecimens  of 
which  may  be  feen  in  fome  Extraordinary 
Gazettes. 

Petition.  A  form  of  prayer,  unprofit- 
able, inconvenient  and  ufelefs,  when  di- 
reded  from  the  people  to  the  miniftcr; 
but  fure,  certain,  and  infallible,  when  in 


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the  form  of  a  parliamentary  acl  it  requcfts 
money  from  the  nation. 

Pillory.  A  very  forcible  argument, 
ufed  by  men  in  power  to  divert  the  atten- 
tion, and  refcue  the  imagination  from  the 
abfurd  and  dreadful  notion  ©f  a  Parlia- 
mentary Reform. 

Placeman.  Mr.  Pitt,  and  his  heaven-* 
born  family,  Mr.  Rofe,  Henry  Dundas> 
and  others.  A  heavenly,  diiinterefted, 
and  honourable  ad m migration  !  Quere~  Is 
it  the  king  that  has  made  them  rogues, 
or  they  who  have  made  the  king  a ? 

Pluralift.  The  man  who,  under  the 
facrcd  name  cf  religion,  contrives  to 
gain  from  the  farmer  his  produce  ;  to  pil- 
lage mankind  of  their  reafoa  ;  and  to  plun- 
der from  the  Hate  its  religious  liberty. 

Poet  Laureat.  One  who  takes  the  place 
of  buffoon,  orfvol  in  moft  courts  in  Eu- 
rope,. 

Police.  The  art  of  erecting  military 
lafiillts  i.  e.  I  arracks,  in  every  county  in 
the  kingdom. 

Poor.  Both  in  fpirit  and  in  purfc,  the 
People  of  England. 

Ptor.  Self-evident ;  fcarch  your  own 
purfc, _.and  look  round  and  fee. 


122  PIGOTT'S 

Popularity.  The  means  by  which  Pitt 
got  into  power  ;  /.  e.  the  reforming  of 
Parliament,  and  deftroying  abufes  ;  but, 
his  turn  ferved,  the  apoflate  is  difcovcred, 
and  who  hitherto  attempts  to  delude  and 
deceive  by  averting  that  this  is  not  a  pro- 
per time,  nor  that  a  proper  time  ;  in  fhort, 
no  time  is  proper  whilil  he  is  in  adminif- 
tration. 

\Popularity.     The  heaven-born  mmifler, 
and  a  hanging  thief. 

Power  (arbitrary).  Where  any  one  per- 
fon  or  body  of  men,  who  do  not  reprefent 
the  whole,  feize  into  their  hands  the 
power  in  the  laft  refort,  there  is  properly 
no  longer  a  government,  but  what  Arif- 
totle  and  his  followers  call  the  abufe  and 
corruption  of  one.  I  look  upon  Arbitrary 
Power  as  a  greater  evil  than  Anarchy  it- 
felf ;  as  much  as  a  favage  is  a  happier  ilatc 
of  life'  than  a  flave  at  the  oar.  Whoever 
argues  in  defence  of  abfolute  power  in  a 
iinglc  perfon,  ought  in  all  free  ftates  to  be 
treated  as  the  common  enemy  of  man- 
kind. SWIFT. 

Precedent.  A  kind  of  argument,  which 
\vc  mufl  not  confound  with  c^am^lc.^ 
PRECEDENT  is  only  brought  in  proof  no 


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favour  the  claims  and  intcrefl  of  kings, 
miniflers,  and  the  privileged  clalfes.  It 
is  abfolutely  infignificant,  and  of  no  force, 
when  the  maintaining  or  recovering  the 
Rights  of  the  People  is  in  queftion.  This 
is  what  diftinguimes^mY^fl/  from  exam* 
pie,  which  applies  equally  to  all. 

Prejudice  (National).  Is  the  moft  com- 
jrnon,  and  the  moft  allowable  of  all  devia- 
itions  from  juftice  ;  it  is  a  near,-  though 
Jan  illegitimate,  relation  of  patriotifm. 

Prerogative  (a  regard  for  the  royal).  A 
worn-out  pretence  to  infringe  upon  the 
laws,  and  a  glaring  deiign  upon  the  pri- 
vileges of  the  people. 

Prefs  (the).  Formerly  the  palladium 
of  Englifh  Liberty  ;  what  it  is  at  pre- 
fent  let  facts  declare.  Mr.  Holt,  of  New- 
ark, in  the  year  1793,  was  tried,  convicted 
and  imprifoncd,  for  re-printing  the  Duke 
of  Richmond's  Letter  to  Col.  Sharman, 
and  Mr.  Pitt's  Refolutions  in  the  year 
1782.  0  tempera,  0  mores  ! 

Prefs  (licentioufncfs  of  the).  The  candid 
method  of  representing  the  fufTerings  of 
the  kingdom,  and  the  fpccdkfl  means  of 
having  them  redrcfied. 


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Prince.  A  being  nurfed  by  Luxury 
reared  by  Affluence,  educated  by  Flattery, 
and  degraded  by  Servility. 

Princes.  In  their  infancy,  childhood, 
and  youth,  are  faid  to  difcovcr  prodigious 
parts  and  wit.  Strange,  fo  many  hope- 
ful princes,  fo  many  mameful  kings  1  If 
they  happen  to  die  young,  they  are  pro- 
digies of  wifdam  and  virtue  ;  if  they  live, 
they  are  often  prodigies  indeed,  but  of 
another  fort.  SWIFT. 

Prifoner.  Among  others,  the  man 
•who,  originally  indebted  a  few  millings, 
fhall,  by  the  villainy  of  attorneys,  and 
chicanery  of  law,  fpend  in  the  gloomy 
ceil  thofe  years  that  might  have  been  con- 
fbling  to  his  family,  and  ufcful  to  his 
country. 

Proclamation.  A  fuppofed  letter  from 
the  king  to  his  People,  in  which  they  arc 
informed  when  they  are  happy,  and  by 
which  they  learn  an  increafe  of  taxes  to 
t>can  accumulation  of  comfort. 

Prudence  and  CEconowy.  An  increafe  of 
taxes  at  the  conclufion  of  an  cxpenfivc 
war;  and  lavifhing  that  treafure  upon 
profligate  favourites  which  fhould  be  ap- 
plied to  chfcharge  the  public  debts  of  the 
nation, 


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. 

Qualification.  Implies  frequently,  the 
quantum  of  money  neceflary  for  a  rcpre- 
fentative  in  Parliament  to  polTefs,  before 
he  fhall  be  fuppofed  to  have  fufficienc 
knowledge  to  give  his  aye  or  no  upon  the 
weighty  affairs  of  the  nation. 

Quarrel.  In  political  affairs,  cleans 
nothing  more  than  the  deiire  of  two  po- 
tentates to  try  each  other's  force  ;  a  fyf- 
tem  perfectly  rational,  and  freely  confid- 
ent with  that  which  gave  it  birth  ! 

Qiteen.  The  poor  wife  oi  a  king,  whe 
miierably  hoards  up  riches  ,  and  counts 
her  gold,  guinea  for  guinea,  with  the  ava- 
ricious, covetous  mifer  herhuiband  ;  who 
is  greatly  belied  if  me  ever  did  a  generous 
or  meritorious  acl-in  her  whole  life;  and, 
for  the  blefling  of  the  nation,  has  contri- 
buted all  in  her  power  to  make  a  bad 
thing  good  for  nothing. 

Quorum.  A  bench  of  JufHces  ;  who 
afTenible  at  fornc  hall,  or  fomc  inn,  to  do 
juftice;  and  there  pafs  orders  to  convey  a 
man,  his  wife,  and  twelve  children,  two 
hundred  miles  off,  becaufe  he  was  not 
born,  or  ferved  apprenticeship,  in  this 
town,  although  he  is  ellecmed  the  beft 


T26  f    I    G    O    T    T  *  ft 

"workman,  and  bears  the  befl  of  charade  r«, 
under  the  apprehenfion  that  he  or  his  fa- 
mily may  become  chargeable  to  the  pa- 
rifh  ! 

O  MAN  !  ARE  THESE  LAWS  JUST  ? 
Or  to  fcntcncc  a  man  to  tranfportation, 
ur  fine,  or,  from  inability  of  payment,  to 
imprifonment,  for  having  knocked  down  a 
hare  which  was  devouring  his  cabbages  in 
his  garden  ;  or  fining  a  man  ten  pounds, 
for  not  being  worth  a  hundred  a  year,  and 
for  carrying  a  gun  without  a  licence  I 

R 

Ralllr.  An  afiembly  of  low-bred,  vul- 
gar, and  riotous  people;  other-wife  the 
Swinifo  Multitude,  fo  called  by  St.  Ed- 
mund, becaufe  they  dare  to  grunt  their 
grievances  even  at  the  fo$t  of  the  throne. 
The  Engliih  rabble,  when  once  roufed, 
are  very  faucy  and  unmanageable,  but 
they  have  the  remarkable  quality  of  the 
mo  ft  paflivc  forbearance,  as  it  is  not  a  lit- 
tle will  difturb  their  (lumbers, 


Sincere,  plain-heartedj  hofpitable, 
Yet  like  the  muftcring  thunder  when  provrk'd  ;, 
TJie,  clrcad  of  Tyrants,  and  the  iolc  rtlource 
Of  thole  that  under  grim  opprellion  gruan. 

Rack.     An  engine  of  torture,  commo- 
^ioully  fitted  up  with  cords,  pincers,  flclh- 


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hooks,  &c.  &c,  ufed  chiefly  for  extorting 
confefiion  from  innocent  men.  la  Eng- 
land the  rack  has  been  out  of  life  ever 
lince  the  mild  reign  of  Tyrant  Elizabeth^ 
but,  it  is  reported,  has  been  propofed  in, 
the  Cabinet  Council  to  be  renewed  for  the 
accommodation  of  the  Jacobines  of  the 
prcfent  day.  It  was  introduced  here  by  a 
duke  of  ExeterA  in  the  reign  of  Tyrant 
Henry  VI.  and  has  from  that  circum- 
Itance,  been  called,  <c  The  Duke  of  Exe- 
t(  ter's  Daughter  j"  fo  that  it  fhould  be  ex- 
ercifcd  only  on  the  nobility,  as  it  would 
be  highly  degrading  for  a  duke's  daugh- 
ter to  have  a  criminal  connection  with  any 
but  of  noble  or  royal  blood. 

Rain.  The  prefent  long  and  fatal  rain 
in  England  has  entirely  ruined  the  coun- 
try paft  redemption,  unlcfs  it  fhall  pleafo 
Heaven  to  put  a  fpeedy  end  to  it.  Alt 
vegetation  is  checked,  the  poor  are  ftarv- 
ing  for  want  of  bread,  and  the  bountiful 
lap  of  nature  no  more  fupplies  us  with 
her  accuftomed  bleffings,  for  nature  her- 
felf  fcems  to  riot  in  the  general  devafta- 
tion  ;  and  all  owing  to  this  curfed  rain. 

Rank.  Kings  are  pcrfons  of  the  firfl 
aank  on  earth,  and  very  rank  indeed  thcjr 


128  P    I    G    O    T    T  *  S 

arc  ;  fo  much  fo,  that  I  know  not  one 
who  could  not  confcientioufly  exclaim 
\vith  the  royal  murderer  in  Hamlet* 

6  Oh  !  my  offence  is  rank  ;    it  fmclls   to  Heaven  !' 

Ranfom.  Price  paid  for  redemption 
from  captivity  of  puniihment.  If  unfor- 
tunately the  Duke  of  York  ihould  be  ta- 
ken prifoner  in  this  glorious  and  neceffary 
war,  the  French  would  gladly  ranfom  him- 
for  a  fans-culottes  drummer. 

Rapier.  A  military  fpit,  long  enough 
to  transfix  at  once  a  tyrant  king,  his  in- 
fernal minifter,  and  one  or  two  judges  or 
bifhops. 

Rara-avis.  A  thing  next  to  imporTI- 
ble  to  exift  ;  as  a  pious  priefl,  a  good 
king,  a  wife  lord^  or  a  virtuous  Parlia- 
ment man. 

RafcaL     See  Wedderlurne. 

Rqft)Kefs.  To  attempt  to  fubjugate  a 
free  people,  by  oppreflion,  intolerance, 
and  bloody  profecutions  for  imaginary 
crimes.  <f  The  fame  pretended  power 
"which  robs  an  Engliih  fubjecl  of  his 
c<  birth-right,  may  rob  an  Englifn  King 
"  of  his  crown."-— Tyrants^  beware  ! 


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Razor.  An  inftrument  very  proper  for 
crazy  kings  to  make  ufe  of,  when  their 
will  is  encom palled  with  evil. 

Realm.  AH  of  a  country  that  is  go- 
verned by  one  Tyrant. 

Reafon.  A  faculty  of  the  foul,  which 
the  people  of  England  never  make  ufe  of 
till  too  late.  They  (hut  the  ftable  door 
when  the  horfe  is  ftolen. 

Rebellion.  An  unfucccfsful  attempt  of 
the  people  in  a  generous  ft  niggle  for  li- 
berty and  equality  of  the  rights  of  nature. 

Rectjs  of.  Parliament.  An  interval  be- 
tween the  feflions,  when  the  prime  minif- 
ter  may  hood -wink  and  tyrannize  over 
the  people,  laviih  their  treafures, and  com- 
mit any  enormity,  not  only  with  impuni- 
ty, and  without  controul,  but  likewife 
with  popularity. — So  much  for  the  En- 
gliflx! 

Reckoning.  That  axvful  account  which 
all  wicked  kings  and  their  minions  may 
expect  to  be  called  upon  to  make  by  an 
injured  people,  whom  they  lord  it  over 
with  an  iron  fway. 

Recruit.  To  inveigle  young  men  by 
martial  mufic,  to  make  them  drunk,  and 
then  flip  into  their  pockets  a  Ihilling  of 


130  PIOOTT'S 

the  Tyrant,  of  the  King's  money  I  mean  ; 
or  if  all  thefe  allurements  be  not  fufficient, 
they  then  kidnap  them.  See  the  words 
Crimp  and  Nab. 

Reefer.  A  grave  and  fanctified  human 
being,  clad  in  fable,  who  lives  by  extor- 
tion and  fraud,  attacking  the  prejudices 
of  men,  keeping  them  from  the  truth,  and 
inculcating,  with  a  pious  countenance, 
fkliehood  and  impofture.  One  of  the  en- 
gines of  Defpotifm. 

Redrefs  of  Grievances.  What  an  op- 
prefTed  people  can  never  *xpeo?r,  from  a 
venal  parliament,  or  from  any  other  fourcc 
but  their  own  will,  and  a  vigorous  execu- 
tion of  that  will. 

Reeves.  Every  thing  that  is  corrupt, 
flagitious,  depraved,  and  abandoned,  af- 
fociated  into  one  human  form.  In  com- 
petition for  villany  with  Lougborough  an  J 
Juflice  Clerk. 

Reform  in  Parliament.  An  objecl.  mo  ft 
devoutly  to  be  wiihed,  but  which  a  fpi~ 
rited  people  would  no  more  petition  tor. 

Refugees.  Englifli  Patriots,  as  Dr. 
Prieftly  and  family,  Mr,  Cooper,  of  Man- 
chcfter,  &c.  &c.  who  in  the  years  179^ 
and  1794,  were  obliged  to  quit  a  coi:nti,y 


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pregnant  with  bigotry  and  perfecution,  to 
fpend  the  reft  of  their  days  beyond  the 
reach  of  Arbitrary  Power,  in  a  more  genial 
foil,  and  in  a  kinder  atmofphere,  in  the 
calm  regions  of  tranquil  liberty  and  unin- 
terrupted harmony. 

Regent.     One  Tyrant   who   governs  a 
kingdom  in  the  abfeace,  or  during  th  c 
minority  of  another  Tyrant. 

Regicide.  Any  brave  fellow  who  dares 
conlign  an  anointed  defpot  to  his  na- 
tive regions  below. 

Rfgjfxgium.  A  feaft  held  in  ancient 
Rome,  in  memory  of  the  expulflon  of  their 
kings  by  Lucius  Junius  Brutus.  There 
is  generally  one  at  the  latter  end  of  every 
century  in  England.  The  regifuge  we  at 
prefent  celebrate  is  on  the  4th  of  Novem- 
ber, as  on  that  day,  in  the  year  1688,  Ty- 
rant James  II.  may  be  faid  to  have  been 
expelled  from  the  throne.  Mr.  Pitt  is 
paving  the  way -for  a  iicw  feaft  to  celc* 
brate. 

Regiment.  A  body  of  hired  afTailins, 
^'ho  °cnter  into  partnerfhip  together  in 
the  trade  of  war.  Thus  for  fix-pence  a 
day  one  human  being  lets  himfclf  out  ta 


132  PIGOTT'S 

murder  as  many  others  as   he  can.     The! 
Bifhop  of  London  fays  truly, 

"  One  murder  maks  a   villain,  thoufands^ 

a  hero." 

Religion.  A  fupcrflition  invented  by 
the  archbifhop  of  hell,  and  propagated  by 
his  faithful  diocefans  the  clergy,  to  keep 
the  people  in  ignorance  and  darkncfs,  that 
they  may  not  ice  the  work  of  iniquity 
-that  is  going  on.  Under  the  mafk  and 
pretext  of  duty  to  God,  they  preach  up 
the  divine  right  of  kings  to  tyrannize,  and 
enjoin  us  to  pafiive  obedience  and  non- 
reiiflan«€to  oppreffion. 

\ 

Wherever  God  creels  a  houfe  of  prayer, 
The  Devil  always  builds  a  chapel  there  ; 
And  'twill  be  found  upon  examination, 
The  latter  has  the  largeft  congregation. 

Remonftrance  to  the  King.  The  fecond 
mode  of  the  people,  when  they  appeal  for 
the  remedy  of  forne  political  evil.  <f  Their 
(<  firft  appeal  is  to  the  integrity  of  their  re- 
"  prefentatives  ;  the  fecond  to  the  King's 
<f  juft'lce  »  the  third  and  laft  argument  of 
<(  the  people,  whenever  they  have  rccouric 
'<  to  it,  will  carry  more  weight  perhaps 


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**  than  perfuafion  to  Parliament,  or  fup- 
*c  plication  to  the  throne." 

Reprefentative*  One  who  neither  cares 
for  your  intercfls  nor  your  welfare,  pro- 
vided he  can  get  a  mare  of  the  general 
plunder.  If  he  can  not  get  a  mare,  he  be- 
comes  all  at  once  a  flaming  patriot,  ha- 
rangues againft  corruption  and  verulity, 
till,  like  the  noify  maftiff,  lie  receives  a;i 
•opiate  mprfei  from  the  thieves  whom  he 
was  placed  there  to  guard  againft.  This 
puts  me  in  mind  of  boys  running  after  a- 
coach,  who,  when  they  are  driven  aw- 
thofc  who  have  already  got  a  place  br.vl, 
out,  Hilloa,  Coachman  !  whip  behind  ! 

Rfprefttttatives  of  the  people.  The  king 
is  the  reprefentative  of  the  people  ;  (bare 
the  lords  ;  ib  arc  the  judejesj  they  arc  all 
truftees   for    the  people,    as   well   as   thy 
commons;  becaufe  no  power  is  given  1  ;r 
the  fole  fake  of  the  holder  ;  and  a  It  ho 
government  certainly  is  an  inditution  of 
divine  authority,  yet  its  forms,  and   pcrfp^ 
*ivb.)   adminifter  it,  all     originate  from 
People.  BUURE. 


beer; 

H    . 


1 34  P    I    G    O    T    Tr& 

Bother's    bK  ]  .,   his    knees,   at  her 

death-bed,  i.-  ffblc  hef  out  of  her 

pocket,  und       _-ath  her  pillow. 

Republic.  A  popular  government  found- 
ed on  the  eternal  and  immutable  princi- 
ples of  liberty  and  equality,  truth  and  juf- 
tice.  A  monarch)'  in  quite  tcute  auire 
cboj's,  and  diredly  oppofite  to  this. 

'Republic.  A  government  which  is  con- 
a  tenth  or  twentieth  part  the 
experce,  throughout  every  department^ 
that  it  coirs  a  monarchical  one.  There  is 
fcarce  fuch  a  thing  known  is  corruption 
of  rulers  ;  and  the  rulers  being  ftationaryv 
have  no  cccafion  0f  attempting  fuch  ru- 
inous 'chen-cs  to  rob  their  fellow-citizens 
cf  their  rights,  as  in  fuch  cafe  they  would, 
deftroy  their  own.  In  truth,  a  Reprefen- 
tative  -Republic  mufl  be  the  feeft  govern- 
ment, as  it  appears  the  moil  rational. 

Requiem.  When  Pitt  dies  a  requiem? 
will  be  fung  or  faid  by  the  Ariftocrats  in 
all  the  churches- in  this  kingdom,  and  in 
our  town  of  Berwick  upon  Tweed,  to  in- 
tercede with  his  -Grace  the  Archbifnop  of 
Hell  to  take  his  dear  departed  foul  out  o£ 
purgatory,  and  to  rcqueft  feme  loyal  ghoft 
or  other  to  dip  his  finger  in  water  to  cool 


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liis  tongue,  as   he  iiiuft  be    tormented   in 
that  flame. 

Refi^nation  ^mitiijt trial).  A  fallacious 
method  of  efcaping  from  the  hatred  of  the 
public,  and  an  artful  Contrivance  in  a  fa- 
vourite to  make  others  refponfible  for 
meafures  which  are  guided  by  himfelf. 

Reftoration.  The  2qth  of  May,  1660; 
the  faddefl  day  England  ever  lav.*;  on 
\vhich  the  reiteration  of  regal  and  epi(co- 
pal  government  took  place  under  Tyrant 
Charles  II. 

Retrogc.de.  The  marches  of  the  Dunce 
of  York  in  Flanders  a  gain  ft  the  ions  of 
Liberty. 

Revolution.  The  fuddcn  overturning 
of  an  arbitrary  government  by  ihe  people. 
"Tyrants  change  a  free  government  into  a 
defpotic  one,  by  flow  gradations ;  but  it  is 
a  comfortable  reflection  to  the  r^nor, 
that  a  united  nation  can  overthrew  ma  mo- 
ment the  work  of  whole  -i^es  of  Tyrants. 
The  Revolution  of  i6S3,  no  good  and 
'wife  man  can  applaud.  It  was  the  defpi- 
cable  patch- work  of  a  few  a J die-pat ed, 
whig  noblemen.  The  people  foon  fo'uhd 
they  had  only  made  an  excru^;;:  cf  Ty- 
rants :  in  fact,  it  was  out  of  the  fry- 
ing-pan into  the  fire. 


176  P    I    C    O    T    T'S 

Revolution.  Change  in  the  ftatc  of  a 
government  or  country.  It  is  ufed  among 
u?  for  the  change  produced  by  the  admif- 
fion  of  king  William  and  queen  Mary, 
fays  Dr.  Johnfcn  ;  but  that  \vas  only  an 
amendment,  and  a  very  partial  one  it  was. 
A  Revolution  Is  a  total  alteration  of  the 
forms  of  government,  and  a  re-affumption 
by  the  people  of  their  long  loft  rights  ;  a 
reiteration  of  that  equality  which  ought 
always  to  fubfift  among  men. 

Regard  of  merit.  Placcj^ and  penfions 
to  fuch  as  hud  fcandaloufly  ibid  the  inter- 
cfl  of  their  country,  and  fupported  the 
tyranny  of  a  prcfumptuous  mmifter. 

Rights,  'i  hofe  claims  which  belong  to 
us  by  nature  and  jufticc.  They  are  quite 
obfclttc  and  unknown  here.  It  has,  in- 
deed, been  a  fubjecl:  of  difpute  among 
learned  political  antiquarians,  whether 
fuch  things  ever  cxifted  in  this  ifland* 

Riot  Aft.  Read  by  a  magiflrace  (or,  if  he 
cannot  read,  by  the  bell-man)  in  times  of 
tjnrult,  whenever  more  than  three  people 
are  fecn  talking  together  ;  a  very  conve- 
nient inflrumtnt  of  date  to  prevent  an\; 
red  it  is  cf  grievances* 


•PO'LlTICAL     DICTIONARY.     137 

Rival  Nation.  The  Ruffian  toour's^in 
cruelty,  intolerance,  and  bloody  periecu- 
tion. 

Robbers.     Eaft  and  Weft   India  plun- 
derers, Prime  Minifiers,  Judges, 
Ihops. 

Robbery.     Many  people  confcunc 
lery  with  conquejt :  they    contend, 
confifts  equally  in  pofieffing  by  force   the 
property  of  others.   But  there    is   a    pro- 
tligieus  difference.  A  robber  is  ire  pi 
ioius  in  his  enterprizes,  or  at  leait  nas  but 
lew  aflbciates  :  jt  is  commonlv  an  indivi- 
dual pofleiled  of  neither  title  nor  crown. 
The  conqueror,  on  the  contrary.,  is  almoil  al- 
ways a  prince  or  a  kiag,  a-nd  is  K>ilovve 
thouiands   of  mc-n  •:    and  the  piracc   \vho 
\vas  bold  enough  to   compare  himfeU"  to 
ALEXANDER,  regarded  the  difference    as 
nothing.     Yet  hiltory,  both  ancient  and 
modern,    proves    it    fufficient  to    render 
ROBBERY    infamous    and    diihonburable, 
^whilft  CONQUEST  is  held  both  lawful  and 
glorious. 

Rope.  In  revolutions,  an  article  ia 
great  demand  among  the  canaille,  or  Swi- 
nifli  Multitude,  when  great  men  are  put 
in  a. -ft ate  of  requifition,  by  a  few  moments 
on  from  their  titles  aad  honour. 
Hi 


13$  PIGOTT'S 

Rofe  (red  and  white).  By  way  of  dif~ 
tinclion  between  two  factions,  who  delug- 
ed this  country  with  blood  through  a  fc- 
ries  of  above  thirty  years,  in  order  to  cfta- 
blifii  a  permanence  of  tyranny  on  the 
throne.  The  houfe  of  York  had  for  its 
badge  a  white  rofe;  that  of  Lancaftcr  a 
red  one.  They  were  both  emuloufly  re- 
vengeful, cruel,  unjuft,  ambitious,  and 
bloody  minded.  As  each  in  turn  got  the 
aiccndant,  the  fcafTold  was  the  fource  of  a 
constant  and  never-failing  ftream  of  blood 
and  there  were  alternately  attainders  in 
every  noble  family  in  the  kingdom,  which 
were  as  frequently  reverfed.  The  remote 
caufe  of  all  this  blood-med  \vas  Tyrant 
Henry  IV.  furnamcd  Bolingbroke,  who 
cepofed,  and  then  murdered,  Tyrant 
Richard  II. 

Rcyuu/t.  Among  the  ignorant  part  of 
mankind,  iignifies  a  perfon  attached  to  rc- 
f  al  government  ;  among  artful  courtiers 
It  is  a  veil  for  their  own  ariflocracy. 

Royalty.  The  curfe  of  God  Almighty 
in!his  wrath  to  man.  Where  this  office 
ex  ids,  the  whole  country  is  pale,  iickly, 
and  unfruitful.  The  poor  lueklefs  inha- 
bitant* ndfcrable,  melancholy,  and  almcft 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       1 39 

mad  with  defpair.  Emaciated  through 
hunger,  fpiritlcfs  through  fubjcction., 
and  depraved  to  the  mmoft  pofiible,  by 
mimicking  the  abandoned  profligacy  of 
the  court. — See  England. 

Rtiftic.  The  poor  labourer,  who  toils 
all  the  live  long  day,  to  procure,  by  the 
fweat  of  his  brow,  enjoyment  for  another. 
He  tills  the  ground,  and  fows  the  feed, 
but  another  comes  to  reap  the  harvefr. 
He  ismockcdwith  the  beautiful  profufeneft 
of  nature  ;  but  denied  to  partake  of  her 
bounties.  He  cultivates  her  flowers,  but 
cannot  fhare  her  fruits.  Great  God  !  if 
this  is  ever  tolie  the  fiate  of  man  on  earth, 
happy  had  it  been  had  he  never  been 
born  ! 

S  , 

Salbath.  A  day  appointed  by  Chriftians 
(from  the  Jews)  for  public  worfhip,  which 
is  employed  in  works  of  piety,  inftead 
of  works  of  labour.  This  heb  iomcdal 
fit  of  devotion  among  chriftians  returns 
regularly  every  Sunday,  when  they  dif- 
charge  in  whining  prayers  and  difcord- 
ant  hymns,  the  accumulation  of  the  week, 
and  empty  themft  Ivcs  in  copious  evacua- 
tion, much  in  the  fame  ncccfTarv  manner 


1 40  ?    I    G    Q    T    T  *  S 

that  a  gormandizing  alderman  does  after  a 
fcaft.  In  different  parts  of  England,  va- 
rious ways  are  adopted  of  cxp  re  fling  to  the 
Creator,  the  devotional  fervor  of  the  peo- 
ple. In  the  metropolis  the  city  apprenti- 
ces, journeymen,  and  their  mailers  gene- 
rally pay  their  tribute  of  adoration,  in  a 
fhilling  ordinary  at  Hackney,  or  fome 
other  neighbouring  village,  a  row  in  aboat 
to  Putney,  or  at  the  Dog  and  Duck. 
The  .higher  orders  of  lociety,  in  a 
ride  in  Hyde  Park  in  the  morning,  and  at 
a  gaming-table  in  the  afternoon.  In  the 
country,  the  athletic  villages  generally 
e  igage  in  a  game  of  cricket,  trap-bal^ 
or  long  fives,  and  the  boys  arruife  them- 
ielves  at  marbles,  or  at  tol's  halfpenny  on 
a  :omb-ftone  in  the  church-yard.  In  rhc 
churches  you  wjll  find  a  few  old  bachelors, 
old  maids0  and.  other  poor  deluded 
wretches  (who  think  to  atone  for  the 
fins  of  a  whole  life,  by  going  to  church 
twice  in  one  day  in  the  week,  and  cheating 
all  they  can  the  other  fix)  lillening  wich 
open  mouth  to  the  dogmas  of  an  illiterate 
prieft,  who  is  bound  apprentice  to  Impli- 
cit Faith,  Efq.  a  wholefile  merchant  both 
ia  religion  and  politics ;  and  afterwards- 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY. 

bccomcs'an  £#/;;£•  partner  in  the  extenfive 
commercial  houie  of  Mcffra,  Superstition, 
Fraud,  Flypocrify  and  Co. 

Sacerdotal.  Belonging  to  the  pricfr-- 
hood.  A  generic  term  for  the  molt  abo- 
minable vices,  the.rnoft  confummatc  de- 
pravity, and  the  moil  bloated  corruption 
that  cither  the  mind  or  body  h  capable  of. 
Sec  Les  Crimes  dcs  Papcs. 

Sack.  To  fack  a  city,  is  when  it  it 
taken  by  ftorm,  and  left  to  the  ravages 
|  land  indifcriminate  plundering  of  the  fol- 
dicry,  and ;w hen  the  fair  fcx  is  not  treated 
tv'ith  that  decency  and  decorum  which  is 
ever  due  to  it.  At  the  recapture  of  Tou- 
lon by  the  French,  an  Englifh  lady  of 
virtue,  very  coolly  went  up  to  a  French 
officer,  and  as  ccmpofedly  alked  him* 
Cf  Pray,  Sir,  can  you  tell  me  when  th£ 
*'  ravifhing  begins  ?*' 

Sack-cloth.  Is  a  kind  of  pfcklirig  fiiift, 
which  is  impofed  on  the  backs  of  fir ful 
heretics  who  impioufly  attempt  to  relift 
the  unlimited  authority  of  the  prieft,  over 
all  their  thoughts,  wordsj  and  actions. 
The  Jews  (iifl  wore  them  by  way  of 
mortification  of  the  ffjb,  and  after  them, 


P    I    G    O    T    T  *  S 

thofe    who     follow   the    religion    of  the 
Whore  of  Babylon  at  Rome. 

Sacrament.  The  Eucharifr.,  the  holy 
Communion,  the  celebration  of  the  Lords-! 
Supper,  which  generally  takes  place  about 
eleven  or  twelve  o'clock  in  the  morning, 
\vhen  (according  to  the  doclrine  of  the 
Romifh  or  Popifh  church)  the  pricfl  (in  a 
manner  worthy  of  Breflaw,  Hymen  Pala- 
tine, Katterfelto,  or  of  any  other  moft  ac- 
complifhed  conjuror)  after  muttering  a, 
rnyftical  abracadabra  of  Dog- Latin,  adtu- 
ally  changes  a  piece  of  half-baked  dough, 
and  a  bottle  of  good  old  port,  into  the 
real  body  and  blood  of  Chrift  ! 

Sacred.  Exciufively  every  word  which 
comes  out  of  the  mouth  of  that  infallible, 
though  human  being,  called  a  pricft. 

Sacrifice.  Any  thing  which  is  offered 
up  to  heaven,  by  way  of  Haying  the  rage 
of  the  Deity  again  ft  finners; <f  and  the 
*f  fame  lamb  which  was  offered  up  to 
"  appeafe  the  appetite  of  the  hungry 
"  pncfL  }> 

MANDEVILLE. 

In  modern  times,  human  facrificei 
have  been  ufed  by  pious  princes,  inftead  of 
thole  of  the  brute  creation ;  and  feme  faith- 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.        I4J 

fill  generals,  obedient  to  the  mandates  of 
their  truly  Chriftian  mailers,  have  facrificed 
twenty  and  thirty  thoufand  human  beings 
in  a  day  ;  which  plainly  (hews  that  they 
have  always  the  fear  of  God  before  their 
eyes. 

Sacrilege.  To  deprive  God's  vicege- 
rents here  on  earth,  the  clergy,  of  a  tittle 
of  their  pofleflions  would  be  facrilcge  ; 
ff  they  toil  not,  neither  do  they  fpin," 
but  they  do  much  more,  they  provide  for 
us  eternal  falvation,  in  a  fnug  birth  in  the 
other  world,  merely  by  a  word  or  two,  fpoke 
in  a  canting  drant,  and  with  thole  additi- 
onal and  irrefiftible  pleaders  in  favour  of 
their  petition,  "  the  lifted  whites  of  both 
"  their  eyes  ;'"  and  for  fuch  a  kind  office 
as  this,  they  ought  to  have  a  tenth  of -the 
produce  of  all  human  induflry,  and  a  tenth 
of  the  bountiful  gifts*  of  nature. 

Sailor.  A  feaman  who  is  taken  vo/u ?/- 
tartly  by  force  from  his  native  home,  to 
fight  for  a  country  which  he  is  indebted  to 
for  nothing,  except  it  be  mifery  and 
Wretchedncfs. 

Saint.  A  devotee  who,  before  men,  re- 
probates fwearing,  lying,  cheating  thiev- 
ing, and  whoring,  but  practices  them  all  at 


144  J?    I    G    0    T    T'S 

his  leifure,  undcuedtcd    and  even 
petted.  Vide  Clergy. 

Salute.  A  gentle  declination  of  the 
head,  hat  off,  when  you  meet  a  peribn. 
Some  time  ago,  Mr.  Beaufoy,  M.  P.  for 
Yarmouth,  was  actually  brought  to  tears, 
becaufe  Mr.  Pitt  did  not  return  his  falute.  - 
It  was  a  hard  cafe. 

Sanfluary.     A   facred  afylum,    not  for 
kings  and  prime  minifters   alone,    but  for 
rogues  of  all  defcriptions.     The  Houfc  of: 
Commons  is  the  iaaduary  of  Pitt,  George., 
and  Co. 

Sans.     Without.  * 

€f  Talents  in  Alfred's  lofty  mind, 

cc  Were  with  integrity  combined  ; 

f<  I,a  the  laft  Henry,  talents  fhonc 

cf  Without  integrity  alone; 

(f  But  lucklels  George,  alas-!  wo  fee, 

f<  Sans  taleat,  fans  integrity  ! 

Sans-Guhttes.  Breeches  arc  deemed  -4 
necellury  appendage  to  decorum  ;  bun 
among  oi^r  more  northern  brethren  arc 
confide  red  as  a  degrading  Ih&ckle  upon 
natural  liberty.  At  the  fame  time  we  ForJ 
bade  the  Scotch  to  carry  arms/  we  co.ni-| 
pelledthem  to  wear  Irwcbts. 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.        145 

Satellites.  In  aftronomy  this  appella- 
tion is  given  to  lubordinate  bodies,  called 
moons,  revolving  about  a  fuperior  orb.  In 
the  political  world,  it  is  applied  to  Dun- 
das,  Jcnkinfon,  Windham,  and  to  about 
5  1 8-5  5  8  of  the  Houfe  of  Commons,  who 
(although  they  cannot  bear  the  thoughts  of 
a  revolution)  revolve  round  Mr.  Pitt  once 
in  every  fedion.  The  word  moon  which 
is  ufed  in  ailronomy,  is  evidently-  a  corrup- 
tion from  the  word  man — moons,  mciis, 
mans,  man. 

Saviour.  George  III.  is  the  Snviour 
of  this  country,  and  it  was  a  particular 
diipcnfation  of  Providence,  in  his  kind- 
neis  towards  us,  to  blefs  us  with  fo  wife, 
ib  pious,  and  Ib  good  a  king.  For  in  this 
happy  reign  not  more  than  two  hundred 
and  (ifty  millions  of  money  and  of  lives,  a 
number  exceeding  the  prefent  population 
of  the  country,  have  been  expended  \nji*ft 
andneccffary  wars. 

Seal L^ard.  One  of  the  maxims  of 
Ohrifiian  kings  is,  ff  Draw  the  fword,  and 
"  throw  away  the  fcahbard."  This  is  «n 
obedience  to  the  commands  of  our  bleiicd 
Redeemer,  (( I  came  not  to  fend  pence  0:1 
I 


I<l6  P     T    0    O    T    T  '  S 

<r  earth,  but  afword."  And  as  he  men- 
tidns  nothing  about  ia  fcabbard,  it  is  evi- 
ii'.i;t  hv  had  no  intention  fuch  things 
flicuH  beufedb)  true  Chriftians. 

Scc;Jf'id.  An  elevated  ft  age  covered 
With -black  cloth,  a.  id  elegantly  fitted  up 
vul;  a  gaUows  and  rope,  a  block  and  ax, 
a  coffin  and  fhrcud,  and  a  bafket  of  favv- 
Jiiii  for  the  head  to  roll  into.  This  mode 
of  execution  is  only  ufed  for  great  male- 
rs,  fuch  as  kings,  bifliops,  and  prin  e- 
rnin  Tiers.  England  and  France  feem 
(from  hifrory)  to  take  it  by  turns  to  exe- 
cute their  kings.  France  produced  the  laft 
in  fiance. 

Umpire.  One  of  the  enfigns  of  royalty, 
"U  Inch  Pitt  a}  pears  to  have  a  longing  after, 
it  v»e  may  judge  from  the  following  foli- 
loquy,  in  \\hich  he  \vas  over-heard  one 
T 'if -lit,  in  a  perturbed  deep,  when  his  mind 
had  got  the  political  night-mare  : 

r<  Is  this  a  ff-rfnrc  which  I  fee  before  me, 
(<  The  handle  towards  my  hand  ? — Con.e, 

<c  let  me  clutch  thcc  ; 
fl  \  have  thcc  not, and  yet  I  fee  thee  ftill." 

1 1:is  hnpr.cncd,  as  I  am  informed,  during 
ihc  kirk's  manin,  illneis  1  mean. 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.      1 47 

Scots.  The  name  of  North-Britons,  who 
are  celebrated  for  fair  promiies  and  non- 
performances,  fair  faces  and  black  hearts. 
They  are  whited  fepulchres  ;  and  God 
Almighty  has  placed  them  in  a  country 
as  barren  of  the  fruits  of  nature,  as  their 
fouls  are  barren  of  virtue  and  honefty. 

Scoundrels.  A  clafs  of  men  exceeding- 
ly ufcful  iii  polifhed  focieties,  and  happily 
they  are  very  numerous.  There  are  ma- 
ny things  \vhichcouldnot  be  done  with- 
out fcoundrels  ;  there  would  neither  be 
fpies  nor  informers,  nor  Leaches  of  the 
London  Coffee-Houfe,  nor  miniftcrs  ;  in 
fliort,  without  them  the  reformers  of  go- 
vernment would  be  deflroyed,  and  the  lo- 
dal  fyftem  totally  overthrown. 

Scramble.  At  the  treafury  there  is  a 
fpacious  apartment,  where  Mr.  Pitt  amufcs 
his  friends,  fometimes  with  a  fcramble  and 
fometimes  with  a  lug  and  a  lite. 

Scrawl.  How  many  thoufands  have 
loft  their  lives  by  a  Jcratvl  of  two  letters  ? 
"vvitncfs  amongft  others  the  j "crawl  of  G.R. 
at  the  bottom  of  a  death  warrant !  Oh  !. 
God  !  is  it  for  this  that  human  beings  are 
born. 

Scripture  (Holy).  The  Bible,  which  is 
t<be  ladc-mccutii  of  .priefbs,  who  put  com- 


148  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

inon  fcnfc  to  the  rack  (and  men  too, 
where  they  can)  by  torturing  the  meaning 
of  obfcure  pafTages,  by  their  a  pojleriofi 
conclufions,  and  will  juftify  anything  that 
is  expedient,  whether  it  is  robbery  or  mur- 
der. 

Seamen.  Judge  Fofter  juftiftes  the  im- 
preffing  of  feamen,by  the  following  argu- 
ment ;  that  ff  all  orders  of  men  ought  to 
<f  contribute  to  the  fupport  of  the  flate  ; 
€f  that  thefe  men  have  been  ufed  to  a  fea- 
tf  faring  life,  that  confequently  they  can  be 
"  of  more  fervice  than  raw,  inexperienced 
€t  land-lubbers,  THEREFORE  that  they  ought 
<(  to  be  made  to  go,  if  they  will  not  go 
(<  voluntarily."— -No  matter  how  they  are 
iituated  in  their  domeftic  concerns  !  How 
long  will  this  iniquity  lafl? 

Sea/on  for  Reform.  Not  when  we  are  at 
war,  for  then  all  is  hurry  and  confuiion, 
and  our  minds  too  heated  and  agitated  to 
fet  about  fo  fcri ou s  an  affair.  Not  when 
we  are  at  peace;  for  then  it  would  be 
madnefs  to  diilurb  the  tranquility  of  the 
nation. 

Seat  in  Par!Limn:t.  From  the  unbiafTcd 
fufFragcs  of  independent  electors  for 


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4000!.     "  A   little  leaven  leaven eth   the 
whole  lump.'*  HOLY  BIBLE. 

Second  Sight.  The  power  of  feeing 
things  to  come,  laid  to  be  peculiar  to 
Scotfmen  ;  e.  g.  when  Loughborough 
feizedthe  feals,  almoft  an  univerfal  bank- 
ruptcy took  place,  and  he  in  a  very  iliort 
fpace  of  time,  iffued  out  upwards  of  400 
commiilions  of  bankruptcy  at  the  mode- 
rate rate  and  profit  of  lol.  each  commif- 
f  on.  "  How  are  we  ruined  ?"  10  times  400 
is  4,000!.  Cf  How  are  we  ruined  ?" 

Secretary  of  State.  A  great  officer,  in 
whom  crimes  are  no  crimes  ;  and  who, 
by  a  political  fpecies  of  infallibility,  can 
exercife  ac~ls  of  oppreflion,  without  ever 
dreading  the  rod  of  correction,  or  regard- 
ing the  poignancy  of  general  reproof. 

Sedition.  Any  thought,  word  or  aclion 
of  your  life,  if  brought  into  a  court  of — 
juflicc;  and  determined  fo  by  a  corrupt 
judge,  and  fettled  fo  by  a  packed  jury.— 
Dreams  may  be  feditious  ! 

Sedition  (a  fower  of).  One  who  tells 
honeft  truths,  and  is  above  the  reach  of 
minifterial  influence  and  corruption. 

See.  The  reward  of  blind  and  bigotted 
priefls. 


I£O  P    I    G    O    T    T*S 

Senate.  In  fome  countries,  is  an  afTcm- 
bly  of  the  fcum  of  the  earth,  who  will 
fhck  at  nothing  that  is  depraved  and  difho- 
nourable,  to  mcreafe  their  treafures  by 
plundering  the  people,  depriving  them 
firft  of  their  wealth,  and  then  ot  all  the 
fweets  of  liberty,  aed  all  the  comforts  o^f 
domeftic  life.  In  England  the  fenators 
are  all  honeft  men,  "all  honourable 
"  men!" 

Senfe  of  the  kingdom.  The  dictates  of 
an  arbitrary  mimfter,  and  the  defpicablc 
arguments  of  his  mercenary  advocates. 

Sepulchre.  See  the  iniidc  of  Pitt's 
heart. 

Sermon.  A  little  thin  book,  with  a 
black  cover,  ff  wherein  one  may  read 
*f  ftrange  things;"  fuch  as  arguments  in 
favour  of  damnation,  eternity  of  hell-tor- 
ments, and  other  matters  equally  amulin^. 
They  are  made  io  as  to  laft  exactly  fifteen 
minutes  by  the  clock.  The  deliverer  of 
thefe  entertaining  and  inftrudtive  lectures, 
is,  for  the  moft  part,  a  Hack-legs  ;  though 
fome  are  good  kind  of  men  ;  but  I  have 
feen  "  fuch  things  that  mount  the  pulpit 
C(  with  a  ikip,  and  then  fkip  down  again." 


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Shuttle.  An  intlrument  for-irr-y  in 
much  ufc  among  the  weavers  ;  bat  ever 
iince  the  war  began,  the  En-Jifh  man  i- 
f.iCturers  have  had  no  occaiioa  fir  them  ; 
foall  the  weavers  from  Maiichefter,  Nor- 
wich, &c.  are  gone  for  foldiers  f<  to  wea  e 
Cf  the  crimfon  web  of  war/'  rather  cha.i 
itarve  at  home. 

Sickle.  A'  reaping  hook,  to  cut  the 
corn  at  harveft.  Tiiis  is  ano  h.  r  inflru- 
meat,  theufe  of  which  is  daily  declimn  :  ; 
as  enilrmrn  of  landed  property  ure  got 
into  a  wa/  of  parcelling  out  che.r  la  id  into 
flierp- walks,  lawns,  and  paiks  for  deer  to 
run  about  in.  Befides  this,  the  rufbc,  in- 
flcad  of  cultivating  the  earch  (the  produce 
of  which  he  may  fcarcely  be  faid  to  iliarc) 
a:nufes  himfelf  by  enteri  ,  •  i  :tofome  vo- 
lunteer corps,  where  he  ge:s  a  horfe  and 
a  pewter  watch,  a  fait  of  clothes,  and  .ae 
nam*  of  a  gentleman  ! 

Simony.  The  rrude  of  dtfpoilng  of 
ch.irch  preferment. 

Sine-cur?.  A  kiid  of  civil  benefice^ 
more  numerous  in  England  than  ecclefi- 
ajlical benefices  are  in  Italy  and  Spain,  6cc. 
no  kind  of  worth  or  merit  is  rcq-jirevi  f 
the  incumbents,  and  they  are  noc  ooii- 


PIGOTT*S 

gated  to  any  honeft  duty  in  return.  In 
fhcri,  a  Mack  friar  is  a  mofl  ufeiui  man  in 
CQrv.panfon  with  a  line-cure. 

Slave.  In  the  Weft-Indies,  is  a  human 
being,  who  is  marked  upon  the  back  \vith 
the  initials  of  his  Chriftian  mailer's  name, 
lie  is  torn  from  his  native  country,  from 
his  friend  sand  connections,  from  thearms 
ci  an  aged  parent,  a  beloved  wife,  or  his 
ccnr  children,  never  to  behold  them  more. 
• — And  yet  Gcd  fuffers  this  ! 

Slave,  A.  human  creature,  made  by- 
law the  property  of  another  human  crea- 
ture. Many  princes  defire,  as  Sane  bo  Pan- 
co}  in  tbe  £romi/ed  ijlavd,  tkat  their  Jubjefts 
might  be  all  blacks,  becav.fe  they  would  Jell 
ibem. 

Slairry.  The  ffate  of  ninety-nine  out 
cl"  a  hundred  of  the  human  race.  In  Eng- 
t  \.  e  profefs  to  love  freedom  ;  and  yet 
v/c  are  ef  agents  of  wickedncfs  in 

the  ir-fcrnal  traffic  in  human  flefh  !  And 
fo  acGufTorhed  arc  \vc  now  to  the  tale  of 
woe,  Vvhich  belongs  to  the  little  hiftory  of 
thoufands  and  tens  of  thoufands  of  Ne- 
groes, that  Vveare  \\earied  with  the  men- 
tion of  thei/  iuiicrings,  and  a  noble  lord, 
Carharnpton,  (who  is  a  difgrace  to  the 


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human  fpecies)  in  the  Houfe  ot  Commons 
openly  and  publicly,  and  with  the  clamo- 
rous approbation  of  fome  other  (rumolefs 
members,  la  ighcd  at,  and  ridiculed  the 
Quixotic  humanity  of  Mr.  VVilberforce 
and  the  reft  of  the  members  who  had  the 
feelings  of  human  beings  interwoven  in. 
their  natures  ;  aad  further  took  what  he 
thought  a  parallel  cafe,  by  an  infamous 
and  cruelly  fportive  allufion  to  the  fitua- 
tio;i  of  a  co-runon  proihtute  1 

Slaughter.  Mat!a;res  of  the  hurmn 
fpecies.  Invented  oy  prieits,  aad  pradlu- 
ed  by  kings. 

Sleep.  Would  to  heaven  that  Engl  fh- 
xricn  could  forget  all  their  cares  and  all 
tneir  miferies,  and  reft  their  perturucd 
fouls  in  oblivious  flcep  !  But 

ff  M^thpught  I  heard  a  voice  cry,  fleep 
no  more  ! 

"  King  George  doth  murder  fleep — inno- 
cent ileep  !c' 

Society.  A  union  of  commuinty  linked 
together  in  one  general  intereft.  But 
Pitt,  that  murderer  of  human  happinefs  ! 
Uur  butcher  of  liberty  t  that  deitroyer 
et  all  the  dcareft  ties  of  love,  harm  ony 


154  * 

and  Inerdfl'ip,  has  difiblved  at  once  all 
the  hmds  ci  love  and  alfociation,  and  fct 
up  father  a^airJi  ion,  and  fen  againft  fa- 
ther, to  j.  trieci'te  each  other  with  unre- 
lenting iurv — aiicj  all — for  a  difference  of 
cpinirn  ! 

Sdzi'tr.  A  man  inveigled  into  a  ban- 
ditti of  hired  afiaflins,  by  means  of  mar- 
tulr.'UiJC  a.id  a  few  guineas.  This  mife- 
rablc  portion  of  fubjecls  isinclofcd  with- 
in barracks,  fe  pa  rate  from  the  reft  of  fo- 
ciety,  from  which  it  has  a  particular  and 
diftind  interefl.  Soldiers  have  no  privi- 
leges, no  rights,  no  feelings  of  humani- 
ty to  guide  them  to  action,  no  fentimcnts 
of  regard  for  their  fellow  men  !  They  are  a 
difuncr  order  kept  apart,  that  all  feniibili- 
ty,  all  fympathy  for  the  fufreringsoi  others 
with  them  may  be  extinct.  Hear  it,  O 
man  !  This  i^  the  intertft  of  all  kings  and 
priefls,  in  order  to  keep  up  the  deluiion  of 
hurpan  adoration  ! 

o  ::<;,,;/.  Is  a  man  <(  clothed  in  pur- 
ft  pie,  and  that  hires  fumptuoufly  every 
f(  day/'  bedizened  out  with  ermine,  fat- 
tin,  velvet,  iilk,  and  gold  fpangles.  Thus 
d  re  (led  up,  he  excites  the  adoration  of 
who  thus  deck  him  out;  and  when 


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they  approach  him,  they  fall  down  on 
their  knees,  kifs  his  hand,  and  pay  him 
that  fame  kind  of  homage  which  in  other 
places  the  prieft  ordains  us  to  pay  to  three 
iuperior  Beings.  This  man  has  the  power 
of  life  and  death,  over  hisfubjects.  The 
frogs  petitioned  for  a  king,  and  they  had 
a  ftork  fent  them.  Would  to  God  that- 
human  kings  were  no  worfe  than  ftorks. 
I  rejoice  within  myfelf  wherever  I  obferve 
a  tyrant  king;  for  that  abject  people  that 
endures  a  defpot,  deferves  to  be  enflaved, 
and  to  be  made  wretched. 

Sponge.  Oh  !  iniquitous  fon  of  Chat- 
ham, go  on  in  thy  deeds  of  darknefs, 
finifli  thy  diabolical  projects.  There  is 
yet  much  blood  to  fpil.l,  and  much  trca- 
fure  yet  to  wafle  !  Be  not  in  a  (late  of  in- 
quietude, for 

<(  A  fponge  will  wipe  out  all,  and  coll  you 
<f  nothing." 

Spy.  An  underling  of  government, 
fent  to  watch  over  the  words  and  actions 
of  innocent  men ;  to  excite  them  to  intem- 
perate exprellions,  and  then  to  inform  ot 
them,  bring  them  into  a  prejudiced  court 
before  a  loyal  jury,  and,  if  podible,  fwear 
away  their  lives,  to  fatisfy  the  bloody  ven- 

is 


156  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

^eanceof  an  infernal  minifter.  An  avowed 
fpy  of  government  (Watt)  is  taken  up  I 
find  on  a  charge  of  high  treafon,  who, 
they  fay,  has  gone  fo  far  as  to  order  pikes, 
and  to  lay  before  a  fociety  a  fpecific  plan 
of  revolt  and  rebellion.  I  know  the  pre- 
fcnt  miniftry  fo  thoroughly,  that  I  fhould 
not  wonder  if  they  were  to  facrifice  this 
man,  though  their  friend,  in  order  to 
prove  the  exiftence  of  a  confpiracy.  And 
yet  it  cannot  be  ;  human  nature  can  ne- 
ver be  fo  depraved.  But  if  it  was  to  hap- 
pen, I  am  furc  f  uch  a  man  would  die  un- 
pitied  and  unlamented.  His  fate  would  be 
fomething  like  that  of  the  San  ton  Barfifa. 

Squire.  Every  fquire,  almoft  to  a  man, 
is  an  opprpubr  of  the  clergy  ;  a  wracker 
of  his  tenants;  a  jobber  of  all  public 
works,  very  proud,  and  generally  illite- 
rate-*. The  fquires  take  the  titl  s  of  great 
men,  with  as  little  ceremony  as  Alexan- 
der or  Caefar.  For  inflance  the  great  Co- 
nolly  the  great  Darner  >  &c. 

SWIFT. 

Stage.  If  any  one  wi  flies  to  obferve  the 
vitiated  and  corrupt  Hate  of  the  are,  let 
him  repair  to  our  theatres,  efpecially  Co- 
vcnuGardcn,  and  he  will  be  furfcited  with 


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the  fervile  effervefcence  of  the  mod  (>r  i- 
tifh  loyalty,  and  with  the  empty  frivol  icy 
of  fentiment  with  which  the  new  pieces 
all  abound.  A  declining  fti^e  in  tafle  and 
morality,  is  invariably  the  proof  ot  a  de- 
clining empire. 

Standing  Army.  It  is  directly  againft  the 
principle  of  our  bleffed  and  glorious  con- 
Ititution  to  keep  up  a  Handing  ajmy,  and 
yet  we  have  an  immenfe  oae,  which  is 
renewed  every  year  under  the  fiction  of  a 
mutiny-bill.  Whataninfult  upon  t\e  peo- 
ple !  What  a  mockery  of  juilice  !  vVnat 
a  faithful  adherence  to  the  ca-.ift  for  which 
our  fathers  fought  arid  bled  !  Who  ca  i 
view  with  a  complacent  eye,  thefe  lo  mils 
of  the  earth,  ff  eating  up  the  people,  as  it 
were  bread,"  thefe  drones  that  are  armed 
with  the  fling  of  the  bee,  to  plunder  vvit.i 
impunity,  and  fatten  on  the  fpoils  of 
others  induilry,  not  to  defend  the  well- 
earned  pittance  of  their  own  ! 

Staple-commodity.  Of  this  country, 
wool  was  formerly,  but  imce  the  war,  the 
{luff  and  woollen  manufacturers  have 
had  no  other  ufe  for  this  flaple  article, 
than  to  makerlinnel  fhrouds  for  our  gal- 
hnt  countrymen  in  Flanders. 


P    I    G    O    T    T>S 

S  tar-Chamber.  Till  the  17  Car.  L  this 
was  a  criminal  court,  calling  itfelfa  court 
of  equity,  in  which  all  Hate  delinquents 
were  thrown,  when  any  offence  was  given 
to  the  king  or  his  minifters.  Thr  penal- 
ties chiefly  impofed  by  this  infamous  tri- 
bunal were  fine,  imprifonment,  pillory, 
and  lofs  of  ears.  The  cabinet-council 
of  modern  days,  has  fuperfeded  the  ufc  of 
the  ftar-chamber  of  ancient  days  ;  and  I 
fhould  -carcely  be  furprifed  if  part  of  the 
houfe  of  commons  were  to  form  them- 
felves  into  a  kind  of  fecret  committee  for 
the-  fame  purpofe. 

Starvation.  What  two-thirds  of  the 
people  are  adhially  reduced  to,  unlcfs  they 
choofc  to  go  into  a  workhoufe,  or  for  fol- 
diers.  The  poor  ff  may  die  like  dogs  in 
ditches/'  and  yet  our  king  is  as  merry  as 
a  grig ! 

Statue.  The  folid  reprcfentation  of  a 
living  being.  The  Hon.  Mrs.  Darner  has 
gained  much  credit  by  hermaiterly  execu- 
tion of  the  king  in  a  marble  bull  ;  which 
idea  gave  birth  to  the  two  following  im- 
promptu's. 

Lord  !   what  a  lurnpifh,  fenfelefs  thing  ! 
And  yet  'tis  very  like  the  king  ! 


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IL 

Why  drive  to  animate  the  marble  rock, 
Kis  facred  majefty's  more  like  the  block  ! 

Statutes.  Acts  of  parliament.  The  lex 
fcripta,  or,  for  the  moft  part,  gradual  in- 
croachments  upon  the  liberty  of  the  fub- 
jcct. 

Stiletto,  a  fh©rt  dagger,  which  Pitt  al- 
ways carries  about  with  him,  in  order  to 
cheat  the  executioner  ;  as  he  expects  to  be 
impeached  whenever  he  goes  out  of  place 
and  I  think  there  is  little  doubt  when  that 
happens,  that  he  will  be  hanged.  Some 
time  ago  St.  Edmund,  the  Jefuit,  brought 
one  of  thofe  convenient  inftruments  into 
the  Haufe  of  Commons,  but  he  did  not 
ufe  it  as  he  might  have  done.  He  only 
drew  it  from  under  his  coat  in  a  furious 
theatrical  attitude,  and  with  much  vehe- 
mence of  action  threw  it  on  the  floor. — 
ff  Hie  crazy  eft,  hunc  tu  Romane  cavcto  !" 

Sukjeft.  Can  only  with  propriety  be 
applied  to  a  member  of  a  ftate,  whole  go- 
vernment has  been  inftituted  by  foreign 
conqueft,  or  the  prevalence  of  a  domeflic 
faction.  Citizen  is  the  ancient  appella- 
tion given  to  the  members  of  free  ftates. 


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Suljefts.  A  nody  of  people  who  fub-j 
mit  to  trie  tyn.ny  of  jae  IIVLI  ;  a  id  yet; 
they  co.nphi  1 1 

Sulor  /  tls'ii.n'fes.     On  ilatc  trials,  is  to' 
procure  faiie  vvit  ielL's  to  tweir  awiy    t'*e 
lives  a  id  pr  >pe  ty  of  in,io:ent  individuals. 
\vho  wiili  for  a  reform  in  Parliament.     A 
real    (la:  {"mi-i-hke   miniflcr    will  always 
h.ive  a 'lore  of  fjca  w-taeil^s  by  him,  tj 
ufe  thetii  wlun  wanted. 

Suljiitut*.  I  knew  an  inflance  of  a  Ro- 
man Cunohc  being driwn  fnr  che  M.iitia. 
The  Magi (1  rates  would  not  fuller  him  to 
be  fworn  in  and  fcrve,  and  yet  made  him 
procure  a  fubititute,  v\hich  coit  the  poor 
fellow  nine  guineas  ! 

Succejjor.  All  monarchs  are  in  felled 
v/ith  the  ftrange  wifh,  that  their  fucccf- 
f;)rs  may  turn  out  bad  princt-s.  Good 
ki.igs  defire  it,  as  they  imagine  thu  their 
gK^ry  will  thus  appear  the  n-oit  fplendiJ  ; 
an-.1  the  bad  defire  it,  as  they  condiier  iucii 
Kings  will  fer->e  to  couatenarcc  uie  i  own 
niiiaemeanouis. 

Sugar  and  Coffee.  Vegetables  which 
have  been  the  ruin  and  mii'cry  of  two 
parts  of  the  world  ;  America  has  been  un- 
peopled to  get  land  to  plant  them  in,  and 


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Africa  is  unpeopled  to  cultivate  them. 

Suicide.  Self-murder,  very  prevalent 
in  England,  and  which  I  think  is  wholly 
afcribable  to  government.  For  when  men 
have  married,  and  find  they  cannot  fup- 
port  their  wives  and  families,  they  arc 
thereby  driven  to  this  act  of  dcfperation. 
Under  a  perfect  form  of  government,  a 
poor  man  would  be  an  anomoly,  a  pheno- 
menon. The  character  of  a  nation  is  cer- 
tainly influenced  and  determined  entirely 
according  to  the  administration  of  the  go- 
vernment. I  never  was  fo  much  affected 
as  at  the  relation  of  a  fact  which  took 
place  a  few  years  ago  on  the  coaft  of  Africa. 
Some  Englifh  ihips  appeared  on  th'ecoaft. 
This  amongft  the  tribes,  was  the  fignal  for 
war.  After  the  battle,  upwards  of  forty 
victims,  who  had  been  taken  prifoners, 
knowing  their  fate,  burft  from  their 
chains,  ruilicd  into  the  woods,  where  they 
all  committed  fuicide  together.  Oh  !  En- 
glifhmen  !  have  ye  hearts  to  feel,  and  yet 
continue  this  traffic  ? 

Superftiiion.  Come  forward,  ye  reve- 
rend crew  !  and  anfwer  for  your  crimes  ! 
Ye  priefts  of  Satan,  it  is  you  that  have 
lighted  up  the  torch  of  intolerance  ;  it  is 


*>    I    G    O    T    T      S 

you  that  have  fet  fire  to  the  fi^got  ;  it  is 
you  civil  hive  ere  ;t  -J  the  funeral  pile  of 
rrrmyrd-mi  !  It  ,s  you  t.-vac  ha-'e  ordained 
r-'i  .tiOiu  nvA.ii  ;  es  !  you  ;uve  it  re  wed  the 
ii  IcN  with  •.:  i  in  i  „ ir:ales,  and  deluged 
trie. Ti  in  bipod  }  and  vet  you  have  it  done  all 
tot;  >;  T  -;d  !  i  alfe  religion,  tiife 

moraht/,  tiLc  rev  rence  f-ridle  cereirn- 
n'-v:s,  a.iu  tiiie  vvor.h^p,  ire  all  tne  children 
oi  tiie  pr  j  i.io  )d,  aa.i  iia  c  been,  are  now> 
a  vl  i  i  -u,  ever  vv;ll  be  adopted,  by  lool- 
iui  \:\  i  unrerkJiiiy;  men  ! 

Surf./ ire.  \  vvriite  girb,-  which  prieds 
wear  vvne  i  they  are  huai judging  the  pco- 
pie. 

S LIU mfi  M i li itudc.  A n  e p i t h e t  a p p  1  5 J 
by  Mr.  Burke,  the  jefuit  oi  6t.  Omer's,  to 
the  En^ltih  people,  be_ufe  tlaey  tamely 
fuTer  their  rights  ro  be  w re  ted  frotu 
th;-m  and  their  wrr>.igs  to  rcm»iia  uarc- 
01.  Jed, 

O'LC'ST./.  A  weapon  of  offence  an-1  de- 
fence, p  :  into  the  ha.ids  of  mercenary 
troops,  uo'ieil  deil ruction  to  all  vithi  i 
their  iiifernal  rea.-ri.  Trie  tyrant  William 
I  if.  ordered  the  }nafia:re  or  3!e  uoe^  in 
waich  'leiuier  age  nor  fex  ^'ere  fpa^red.  \ 
ftauiur  event,  it  has  bc 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.      l6j 

place,  a  few  years  iince,  at  Lexington,  ..i 
America.  Of  what  materials  are  Princes 
made  ?  I  fhould  much  like  to  kno^v  whe- 
ther their  anatomy  and  phyiiology  be  the 
funeasin  oiher  men!  —  How  can  they 
ever  procure  men  to  murder  for  them  at 
fix-pence  a  da/  i 

Sycophants.      A   long    firing  of  rafcals, 
from  Lough  borough  dow  i  to   vVindnam. 


of  Coins*  i  o  keep  the  people 
in  ^gnoiunce  ;  hecaufe  if  they  were  fuf- 
fered  to  be  e  n  I  !ghtentd>  "  Otliello's  oc- 
cupation's gone!" 

<f  Where  there  are  Kings,  there  mufl   be 

fc  Courts, 
cf  And   where   there  are   Ccurts,  there 

(<  mult  be  corruption." 

Therefore  long  live  corruption  ;  may  ccr- 
r  jptto.*  live  tore\er. 

T. 

Tj-e  -Bearer.  One  who  gives  malicious 
and  calum  nous  intelligence.  V/indham 
is  tale-bearer  and  lym  i  ahrum-oell  to 
the  houfe.  In  December,  17^2  at  that 
extraordinary  meeting  ot  PaiiamcMC,  he 
bafely  aiferted  what  he  kn>^  LO  be  falle. 
In  the  violence  ot  his 


1 64  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

his  enemies,  the  friends  ol  liberty,  he  faid, 
€<  it  v  as  r.ctcrcis  that  title  v.as  a 
criminal  correfpondence  between  the 
Jacobins  of  England  and  the  Jacobins 
of  Paris  ;  that  there  was  a  regular  con- 
fpiracy,  and  that,  like  the  accomplices 
of  Catalme,  they  were  bound  to  fidelity 
by  thefolerm.ity  of  a  horrid  oath  (here  he 
was  interrupttd  by  feme  members  who 
exclaimed,  prove  !  f-r^e  !)  The  orator 
then  proceeded  to  flate  his  authority, 
which,  he  (aid,  was  unqueftionable,  no  lefs 
than  that  of  an  honourable  Member,  but 
"  ike  f aft  ivas  -net  of  much  conjeqiience." 

Tally.  Thelit'tle  boy's  to,  kay  bean, 
that  grew  up  to  the  moon,  would  icarcely 
be  long  enough  to  cut  a  tally  upon,  of  our 
national  debt.  But  it  is  all  for  the  belt, 
as  Dr.  Panglofs  fir.  s. 

Tartarus.  A  place  in  hell  fet  apart  for 
Engiiih  Kings  and  Minillers,  who  lord  it 
over  their  iubjedts  with  an  imperious, 
cruel,  and  iniquitous  domination. 

Tattoo.  The  roar  of  cannon  is  the  De- 
vil's Tattoo,  by  v.hich  thofe  generous- 
hearted  men  (calle*  foldiers,  who  are  paid 
fix-pence  a  day  to  fhoot  and  be  mot  at,) 
are  warned  to  appear  at  their  loft  quarters. 
Can  any  one  pity  them  f 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.     165 

'Taxes.  Thefe  are  imports  laid  on  the 
common  bounties  of  nature,  and  on  the 
bleffmgs  of  Providence,  in  order,  as  is  pre- 
tended, to  defray  the  neceffary  ex  peaces  of 
a  flate,  but,  in  fact,  to  aflift  defpots  in 
carrying  on  bloody  and  internecine  wars 
againfl  human  lite,  human  liberty,  and 
human  happinefs.  In  this  country  our 
unrelenting  tax-mailers  and  taik-maflers, 
as  if  ftudying  a  refinement  of  cruelty,  in- 
flict upon  the  mute  and  patient  people, 
the  v.  Gift  of  all  punifnments,  difeafe,  by 
taxing  the  light  of  heaven,  that  grand  cf- 
fential  to  health.  This  tax  alone  is  the 
remote  caufe  of  the  premature  mortality 
of  nearly  cone  hundredth  part  of  the  na- 
tion. To  fupe racial  obftrvcrs  this  may 
appear  incredible ;  but  to  the  enquiring 
and  fcrutiniziag  philofopher,  it  is  &  lad 
and  melancholy  truth.  Oh  !  People, 
People  ;  when  will  yc  open  your  eyes  ? 

Tear.  A  cryftal  drop  of  water,  which 
at  once  involuntarily  ftarts  in  the  eye  of 
the  philofopher,  upon  the  bare  mention 
of  the  word  Kins:,  or  Prieft  !  I  declare  to 
God  I  al-noft  \vifli  that  I  polTeffed  the 
gloomy  eloquence  of  He^cf  p  ris,  that 
mankind  bv  ih?.t  fad  alternate  o,  might  be 


l66  PI     GOT     T  '  S 

forever  relieved  fromthofe  fcourges  of  the 
human  race  ! 

Te  Deum.  A  hymn  of  praifeand  thankf- 
giving  offered  up  by  Chriitians  to  the  God 
cf  Peace,  in  c'dtbratibn  of  thofe  maflacres 
called  victories.  ]  have  fludied  the  En- 
glifh  people  thoroughly,  and  I  v;  rily  be- 
lieve they  are  very  rapidly  indeed  merging 
towards  Popery  ;  nor  fhould  I  be  afioniih- 
ed  to  fee  the  Englifh  church  a  real  church 
militant,  its  Priefts  at  the  head  of  armies 
carrying  the  bloody  banners  of  war  into 
the  churches,  to  be  confecrated  at  a  pol- 
luted altar,  and  an  Auto-de-fe  to  crown 
the  whole. 

Temper  of  the  Times.  What  a  wonder- 
ful fource  of  contemplation  \  What  an 
endlefs  field  of  fpeculation  to  the  think- 
ing man  !  In  the  times  of  Junius,  in  that 
period  when  the  prcfent  Chamberlain  of 
London  was  a  man,  and  at  the  relu&ant 
clofe  of  the  American  war,  what  national 
energy  wasdifplaycd  !  What  ipirited  re'o- 
lutions  were  entered  into  !  V\  hat  manly 
rcanbhft ranees  !  Every  man  w?as  permitted 
to  cxcrcife  the  faculties  of  man  !  He 
might  lben>  with  impunity  declaim  again  ft 
iniquity,  oj.  prefiiorr,  and  military  mafia- 
crcs  !  A  lung  was  not  then  divine,  a 


POLITICAL   "DICTIONARY.     I     -y 

Prime  Minifter  infallible,  or  a  Fried  tbc 
Vicegerent  of  God  !  It  \vasrot  tben  li- 
bellous to  expofc  the  conduc'r  of  corrupt 
Judges,  nor  was  it  trcafon  to  cenfurc  the 
blind  and  mifguided,  yet  pei fevering,  po- 
licy of  a  crowned  man. 
<f  Tempora  mutantur  et  nos  mutan  ur  in 
"  illis  !" 

Tfmplr.  The  refidencc  of  legal  mon- 
fleis,  who difguife  thcmfelies  wl  en  they 
are  bent  upon  plunder,  for  the  fame  reafon 
that  highwaymen  do,  to  prevent  detec- 
tion. The  attornies  fa  body  cf  men, 
which,  taken  collectively,  are  a  difgrace 
to  hi  man  fociety )  are  their  parafites  and 
their  Panders.  Doubtlefs  there  are  many, 
very  valuable  members  of  fociety  in  both 
thefe  communities,  rut  one  cannot  help 
abhorring  the  general  efprit  de  corps' \\hich 
is  their  characleriftic.  It  is  a  great  corre- 
lation, houever,  to  me,  that  the  riling  ge- 
neration of  lawyers  (I  fpcak  oi  thcfe  in- 
tended for  the  tar)  are  tor  the  n  oft  patt, 
young  men  of  liberal  and  enlightened 
rr.incis,  and  from  whom  much  may  be  ex- 
pected. 

Tempera/.  The  Lay-Lords  mif  lit  ji'f>- 
ly  be  called  both  temporal  and  eternal. 
Temporal,  becaufe  not  ecclciiailical  ;  and 


1 68  F    I    G    O    T    T  *  S 

eternal,  becaufe  their  titles  and  pofTcfliont 
defcend  by  hereditary  right  in  eternal  fuc- 
ceffion. 

Temporize.  <(  Thefe  are  the  times  to 
Cf  try  men's  fouls,"  and  when,  to  tempo- 
rize is  a  heinous  crime. 

Tent.  A  canvas  awning  extended  upon 
poles  under  which,  upon  the  cold  and 
damp  earth,  a  wifp  of  ftraw  is  thinly 
ftrewed,  to  make  a  bed  for  five  creatures 
of  a  human  appearance,  whofe  bodies  arc 
ftretched  upon  this  downy  couch,  forming 
radii  of  a  circle,  with  their  feet  wedged 
together  in  the  middle  like  the  fpokes  of 
a.  wheel.  Here  they  all  join  in  the  glee, 
f€  How  merrily  we  live  that  foldiers 
fc  be.  !  !" 

Tenth.  As  an  adequate  reward  for  thofe 
flrongdofes  of  intolerance,  bigotry,  fu- 
perfiition,  and  fanaticifm,  which  are  ad~ 
ininiftcred  from  the  pulpit,  and  as  a  rea- 
r enable  compenfation  for  the  general  er- 
ror and  mifchief  which  is  fuperinduced  in 
the  minds  of  the  ignorant  and  deluded,  the  ; 
wily  prieft  demands  one  tenth  of  all  the 
bountiful  gifts  of  cultivated  nature.  And 
he  will  tell  you  with  a  grave  face  and  up- 
lifted eyes,  that  eternal  damnation  is  the 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY".         169 

fine  qua  non  of  a  refufal  to  this  /acred  de- 
mand !  !  ! 

T' eft- Atf.  This  is  one  of  the  many  Acl* 
of  Parliament  that  difgraces  our  Statute 
Book.  It  enjoins,  that  no  one,  except  he 
is  of  the  eftablifried  Church,  ihall  enjoy 
any  place,  penfion,  or  emolument  in  ol- 
fice,  under  government,  unlefs  he  has  pre- 
vioufly  eaten  a  piece  of  confccrbted  bread, 
or  drank  fome  confe crated  wine,  which  is 
by  the  magic  of  the  pried,  conjured  into 
the  mylUcal  (not  real  as  the  true  Chriftians 
iflcrtj  body  and  blood  of  Chrift  !  ! 

Telrarcbv.  The  object  of  this  juft  and 
necefiary  war,  is  to  change  the  wild  anar- 
chy of  France  inro  a  glorious  tetrarchy, 
under  the  kind  and  parnculardifpenfatiori 
of  Providence  to  the  crowned  men  of 
PruiTia,  Spain,  Germany,  and  England  ! 
Dsinoberos  Bafilcus  !  ! 

Theatre.  1.  of  \V?.r,  is  a  large  plain 
where  the  fleih  pl-int  grows  to  perfection, 
and  likewife  a  ne\v  plant  perfectly  un- 
known to  Linnreus,  hitherto  a  Non-De- 
fcripty  but  which  1  ihall  hive  the  honour 
of  fir  ft  acquainting  botanifts  with,  and 
therefore  proceed  to  o-;v*  the  following 

r  _    o  o 

K 


1 7O  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

description  of.      I  clafs   it  according  to 
the  Linnean  fyflem. 

Clafs  and  Order.     Monandria.     Nogyma. 
Genus  and  Species.       Miles.      Sanguina- 

rius. 
Generic  Character.       Pugnat   ct    trucidat 

pro  auro. 
T*igurq\     Humana,   ct  emittit  Voccm  hu- 

rnanam. 
Calyx.     Galeatus,  plumis,   fanguinco  co- 

Jore,  decora tus. 

Corolla.     Ovata  ;    nafo,  et  ore,  ct  lingua, 
ft  mento,  et  pubc  in  mentum  tamquam 
in  animale  humano,   ct  duabus  auribus, 
<  t  duobus  oculis,  ornata. 
Cortex.      Cocci  natus. 
Yandex.      Cruralis,  brachiatus,    et  Iracca- 

tus. 

Stamina.       Plcrumque  ab  auris  frigidis  et 
humidis,  etiam  exhalationibus  terras  ex^ 
itialibus,  debilitata. 
PijliHa.      Duo,  cum  pulvcre  ct  ballis  char- 

geata 
Tcncarpium.      Folliculus,  cartridgis  cx- 

plctus. 
fulcra.     Arma.       Mufkcta  bayonettata  ; 

et  glad ius  ancepsy/7/r  vagina. 
Ji.aHtat.     In  barrackis  fetidiflknis,    ct  in 
agris  humidis,  varies. 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.          I'/f 

Frutex  eft  pcrennis,  parafiticus  ;  et  fbepif- 
lime  nuitilatus  invenitur,  c.  g.  line  ca- 
pitc,  line  cruribus,  fine  brachiis,  &c. 
Florefcit  optime   in  Orbe  Chriftiano. 

Theatre.  II.  Dramatic.  The  common 
fewer  for  the  mod  beaftly  and  the  mod  dc  - 
p raved  fentiments  of  loyalty,  that  a  bafe- 
born,  abject  people,  can  make  life  of!  A 
temple  of  worfhip,  where  the  little,  fcep- 
tered  and  tinfelled  creature  is  adored  with 
more  veneration  and  reverence,  than  the 
great  Creator  !  It  is  in  thcfc  places  that 
a  mod  impious,  and  blafphemous  long  is 
fung,  during  which  time  the  obedicnc 
People  are  compelled,  by  force  of  arms, 
to  ftand  np,  uncovered,  as  if  they  were  in 
a  church! 

Theologian.  A  Profeifor  of  Divinity, 
which  is  fynonymous  to  a  practiicr  of 
chicanery,  fraud,  and  hypocrify.  For 
ample  cxaiiiples,  apply  to  the  bead*  of 
Colleges  in  our  Uaiveriltics  of  Oxford 
and  Cambridge. 

Thirteen.  United  States  of  America  ; 
which  bravely  threw  oil"  the  Englilh  yoke, 
and  like  all  r>;ood  Republicans,  renounced 
the  bug-bear  of  Royalty. 


I  7  2  PIC     O    T    T  '  S 

ciboiifi.uid.  When  i  peeking  of  Englifh 
ibldiers  flam  in  haule,  a  n,ere  milk-fc.ore, 
hot  worth  a  King  of  iinglanci's  thinking' 
of  !  "  What  !  what  !  what  !  Pitt  !  only 
"  a  thoufand  !  only  a  thoufand  !  Heh'l 
<f  Go  a  hunting  ?  Go  a  hunting  ?  Heh  ! 
t(  Heh  !  Son's  a  th  d.og,  ilv  dog,  fly  dog  [ 
fi  Takes  car.  ;  ikx.k.  Ha  I  ha  !  ha  ! 

<f  Good  hi  (hop  i  roi-d  Bifhc  p  !  Ha  !  Ha  I 
«<  Ha  !  Go  and  td'l  Charioac  1  tell  Char- 
f<  iotte  !  ahd  then  t'alliOj  tallio  !  1  Ha  1 
V  Ha  !  Ha  !  Vv  hat  !  'What  !  What  ! 
<f  only  a  thouiand  !  Dutiful  ion,  though  ! 
<<  Heh  !  Pitt,  I-lt-h  ! 

*Tbraldom.  The  human  mind  has  been 
in  a  con  i  tan  t  ft  ate  of  ibnUdnm)  (lor  what 
reaibn  I  know  not)  ever  iincc  that  fatal 
ycai*  for  Lngland  1760. 

Throne.  A  lumptuous,  richly  furniflied, 
and  elevated  feat,  \\hich  is  placed  upon  a 
plationn,  with  iieps  to  it,  and  would  ierve 
as  well  ior  a  Icali'old,  as  any  thing  elfe  ; 
but  it  is  made  for  a  King  to  fit  on.'  A 
man.,  fantaiiically  drefl  out  in  ermine,  vel- 
vet, gold  and  iiiver  tinfel,  gold  and  iilver 
1  pa n g  1  c s,  i 4 u i r re  1  an d  r a b b .  1 1  k  i n s .  Thus 
tricked  out,  hke  the  wooden  god  of  Ota- 
heite,  having  iV:!rccl\-  the  rciemblance  of 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.    173 

a  human  being,  ir  is  no  wonder  that  men 
fhould  be  fo  deluded,  as  to  think  him  more 
than  mortal,  when  it  requires  ib  little  of 
imagination  to  rnetamorphofe  him  at  once 
into  an  object  of  worlhip.  Under  this 
impreffion,  \vhentheyapproachthe  throne, 
they  are  ft  ruck  with  awe  and  difmay,  and 
addrefs  this  bundle  of  line  clothes  with 
bended  knee  and  humble  voice,  as  if 
they  were  attempting  tcpppeafe  an  irritat- 
ed Deity.  If  the  addrefs  pleafes  the  ora- 
cle, a  great  red  hand  is  protruded  from  un- 
der this  now  animated  bundle,  which  the 
priefts,  who  are  Handing  around  the  altar, 
and  affiftirig  at  thefe  folemn  rites,  tell  the 
lowly  fupplicant  he  is  to  kifs  !  !  To  kifs  * 
Heaven  and  earth,  mufl  I  remember  ?  To 
kifs  ?  And  yet  if  you  afk  one  of  thefe  def- 
picable  wretches,  after  having  gone  thro* 
this  pantomimic  fcene,  whether  he  is  a  lu- 
natic ?  tl  No/'  he  will  tell  you,  fc  I'm  a 
loyal  man."  Pitiful,  forry  wretch  !  loyal 
thou  rnayeft  be,  a  man  thou  canft  never 
pretend  to  be  1 

Throttle.  A  curfory  Jlritfure  on  the 
throttle  of  tha*t  monitor  Pitt,  and  of  fome 
other  great  men,  would,  I  think,  be  well 
received  by  all  parties,  upoa  \i\ 
publication  to  the  world. 


174  P    I    G    O     T     T  *  S 

Thrum.  In  Manchefter,  Norwich,  and 
in  other  manufacturing  towns,  it  formerly 
meant  a  loom's  work,  curioufly  done  up, 
and  ready  for  the  weaver,  but  the  word  is 
310 w  nearly  obfolete,  and  the  meaning  of 
it  only  known  by  obfcure  and  imperfect 
tradition.  And  where  the  bufy  weaver, 
in  days  of  yore,  plied  at  his  cheerful  labour, 
the  no  lefs  bufy  little  fpider  now  weaves 
it;.;  filken  veil  of  oblivion  ! 

Tick.  The  way  that  government  pay 
their  debts  !  ! 

7 <;•  ;;/•/;.  A  certain,  and,  I  believe,  the 
only  aiVlurn  for  mortals.,  from  t!hc  tyranny 
and  opprciiion  of  Kings  ;  and  the  depravi- 
ty, hypocrify,  and  intolerance  of  priefis  ! 
?  \  hen  I  pals  by  a  burial  place,  I  think  I 
Ice  engraved  upon  every  tomb-done, 
<l  Come  unto  me  all  ye  that  labour  and  I 
<c  will  give  you  reft." 

Torture.  Invented  by  monks,  and  prac- 
tifcd  by  priclls  on  unbelieving  heretics 
lit  an  Auto-de-Fc,  in  order  to  bring  thofc 
ainful  renegades  vdrhin  the  pale  of  the 
Chriftian  Church.  Whence  the  term  /;;/- 
paling  /  !  But  as  their  fouls  are  laved  by 
it,  it  is  all  very  right  !  ! 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.       175 

Tower.  The  Englim  Baftille  for  Hate 
prilbners  who  are  in  the  opposition,  and 
for  tnends  of  freedom.  It  is  policy  to  put 
fuch  men  in  the  Tcv  ei,  as  thty  will  prize 
Liberty  the  more  wn:  n  they  come  out. 

Trade.  A  mean  v,  ay  01  getting  money, 
upon  that  account  much  and  fuccefsfully 
difcouraged  in  the  preicnt  reign. 

Tragedy.  The  h  ftory  of  kings  of  all 
ages  and  all  countries,  is  one  continued 
deep  and  difmal  tragedy. 

Train-Bands.  A  curious  collection  of 
bra \\  ny,  greafv -faced,  old  ladies,  drcfied 
up  in  men's  clothes,  and  accoutred  with 
large  bread  and  cheefe  knives. 

Traitor.  Any  man  who  ilrives  to  re- 
form either  Church  or  State. 

Trdrjubjlaniiatior..  One  of  th?  fupprf- 
cd  tricks  of  thofe  arch-conjurers  called 
priefts,  by  which  dough  and  wine  are 
changed  into  liem  and  blood  ! 

Treqfon.  Any  undefinable  offence  which 
crown  lawyers  chufe  to  call  fo,  provided 
they  can  pack  accommodating  juries  to 
bear  them  out.  In  the  icign  of  the  Stu- 
arts, corrupt  judges  were  eafily  to  be  pro- 
cured, and  juries  were  fo  compliant  to  the 
arbitriumbfa  Judge,  that  to  accufe,  \vas. 


176  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

to  convict.  In  more  modern  times,  how- 
ever well  the  bench  may  have  been  flock- 
ed with  Triiilians,  iimfpons,  Dudleys, 
Jefferies,  and  Scroggs,  yet  I  have  too 
good  an  opinion  of  a  modern  Englifh  Ju- 
ry, if  collected  with  but  tolerable  partial- 
ity, to  fuppofe,  that  they  would  fend  in- 
nocent men  out  of  the  world,  merely  be- 
caufe  they  oppofe  the  adminiftration  for 
the  time  being. 

¥reafury.  I.  Prints,  are  thofe  new f pa- 
pers under  the  pay  cf  the  Miniftcr  for  the 
time  being.  For  which  confideration  the 
editors  applaud  and  attempt  to  juftify 
every  meaiurc  of  government  indifcrimi- 
nately,  reprobate  all  reform  of  abufes,, 
every  amendment  of  the  conftitutionj 
And  abufe  all  reformers  as  levellers,  andj 
every  innovator  as  a  traitor  to  his  coun-j 
try. 

'il.  Bench.  Is  the  feat  on  the  right 
hand  of  the  Speaker  in  the  Houfe,  on 
which  are  arranged  in  order,  in  regular] 
fcniority  of  corruption,  thofe  members! 
who  have  the  lingular  good  fortune  ahvay\ 
to  coincide  w.ith  the  Miniller  in  all  hisj 
meafures  whether  it  be  to  overawe  the  peo-l 
pie  of  this  land  who  wifh  a  reform,  byj 


P  O  I.  7  T  I  C  A 

the    i'.r;  • 
whether  ii  i: 
pus  a*. ,. 

III.  L 
£''Ci  argil  i 
any  p.  r  ; 
I'  . 


CTI0-NARY.      I7~ 

•.;ii  troops,    or 
j  Habeas  Cor- 

•  admonitory, 
,  in  lav our  of 
.  er  \\  ifhes  to 


^>  to 
toinion... 
lew  i  cores  «.;: 
guments  are  j 
brairal   and    ai 
ailbrda  dec  id  -d 
of  the 
fu  ''ccfl. 


,:    t-ry  t-i        e 

It  was  the  cv.i- 

thefe  letters   a 

s  ;  b   i  Hie  ar- 

•  in  Alge- 

.-',  ulnch 

L]    v.ruof 


*t  *^i 

beauty   and  admiral  hefc 

Algebraic  equations,   - 
fotnietimes  lent  \vith  bl 
baniv  of  England,   to  be    i 


difcretion    of  the  doiu. 


!  1 


fllall  fubj'oih  two  Algebraic  equafion^  by 
way  of  ill  ailration,  with  an  «..^. L~aLiOii 
appended. 

EQJ.JATION   I. 

VSHCA  x  S—coLT  x  P— SD. 

EQUATION   II. 
VA  x  GSAF— A.MEG—  BC  x  I'— GE  K  P  x  RS 


178  PJGOTT'S 

Explanation  of  the  Firft  Equation. 

Voting  for  Sufpenfon  of  Habeas  Corpus 
Act,  plus  a  Speech,  is  equal  to  50  Lottery 
Tickets,  plus  a  Pen  lion,  minus  a  Small 
Drawback  when  Pitt  goes  out  of  place. 

Explanation  of  the  Second  Equation. 

Voting  for  the  Addrefs,  plus  a  Good 
Speech  Abufing  the  French, minus  Abuiing 
the  Miniflers  of  the  Englilh  Government, 
is  equal  to  a  Blank  Cheque  on  the  Bank  of 
England,  plus  a  Peerage,  minus  a  Good 
Eftate  to  it,  but  plus  the  Promife  of  one, 
multiplied  by  Royal  Smiles. 

IV.  The  Treasury  is  a  large  fpacious 
apartment,  filled  with  guineas,  which  the 
tniniftfriov  the  time  being,  and  his  friends 
and  the  friends  to  Church  and  king  have 
conftant  accefs  to,  whether  it  be  to  pur- 
chafe  perjury  againft  an  innocent  friend 
to  liberty,  or  whether  it  be  to  gain  over  an 
untradlablc,  doubtful  or  unjlauncb  jury. 

<f  Nemo  omnium  gratuito  mains  eft." 

'Treaty.  Of  king  and  king,  is  a  nego- 
tiator/ compact  between  two  ftates,  in  or- 
der to  be  firft  broken  by  him  whofe  in- 
tcrefl  it  is  ib  to  do. 


POLITICAL   DICTIONARY.    179 

Tree  of  Liberty.  Habitat  where  kings 
are  not,  and  where  priefts  arc  not. 

"Trial.  A  pantomimic  farce,  where 
there  is  &Jb9w  of  ju  ft  ice,  who  is  reprefent- 
ed  full  of  eyes,  like  Argus,  to  cxprefs  her 
impartiality,  and  a  Jpy-glafs  to  each  eye 
to  mow  that  me  has  an  eye  upon  all.  In 
the  centre,  upon  a  kind  of  bench,  fit  three 
old  ladies,  with  cardinals  on,  by  way  of  a 
cloak.  Round  a  green  table  are  fitting  ten 
or  a  dozen  priefts  in  fable,  with  bands  on, 
who  expound  the  myfteries  of  the  place  to 
the  old  ladies,  and  to  twelve  lean,  hungry, 
grunting  pigs.  In  the  centre  of  this 
groupe,  and  oppofite  to  the  old  ladies,  fits 
Innocence  in  a  reclining  pofture,  pale  and 
emaciated,  fad  and  melancholy  through 
long  confinement,  and  bound  hand  and 
foot.  At  the  clofe  of  the  pantomime  the 
pigs  grunt  out  ibmething  of  an  articulate 
found,  for  the  moft  part,  as  they  are  taught 
to  do  by  the  three  old  fchool-miftreffes. 

Trinity.  The  incomprehenfible  union 
of  three  perfons  into  one  Godhead.  Who- 
foever  will  not  believe  this  will  be  damn- 
ed, therefore,  whofocvcr  does  not  be- 
lieve what  is  incomprehenfible  will  be 
damned.  E.  D. 


i  So  P  I/G  b  T   r  *  s 

Triumph.  I:  C:  :  Jom  hum^nmaf- 

facres  are  f  •"  .;.  r-t-:d  m churches 

by  way  of 

Truce.  A  rruii  j  .Accommodation  be- 
tween r.vo  :  en  :  -i.xin  the  verb 
tracido. 

Triwpet.  A  long  tube  which  is  found- 
ed in  ba^:';  hi  '  oiieirih,  to  chide  Clothe 
and  La  •  v  •  ;u:,r  .dlenefs,  and  to  tell 

Arroyos  to  |  (leif  (cifhrs  ready. 

Tniib.  VVhit  kipd.  ot  a  government 
mull  that  \-?  r-\ ...  .re  it  is  judged  libellous 
to  tell  trie  in'  h  -;»r  the  creature^  but  praife 
worthy  to  •;  -uarnmate  the  Creator  f  What 
kind  or  gi  vevniuent,  or  rather  what  kind 
of  tyr  :::>  \-\\\X  that  be,  v,  iiere  the  noble 
and  in  veil  i^a  ting  rnind  of  man  dares  not 
promulgate  known  truths,  where  the  fcru- 
tinizing  ey-*  of  the  philofopher  has  pene- 
trated, but  where  that  eye  dares  only  fee  in 
fccret  ^  VV  hat  can  we  think  of  a  flate  where 
our  religion  is  the  patch-work  of  priells, 
and  our  fyftem  of  policy  the  Dagon  of  a 
few  wily  and  idolatrous  knaves  called 
(latefmen  ?  Where  upon  the  only  fub- 
jec'ts  worthy  of  difputation  or  minute  e-n^- 
quiry,  all  th  •  nobleit  faculties  of  the  foul 
are  huihed  into  iilence,  and  fettered  down 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY. 

to  the  received  opinions  of  an  age  of  frper- 
Ihtiom  and  preiud.ce,  on- pain  of  the  m  ,-fl 
cr-:el  and  VK  d  ftive  punilhmtnts  ?  Truth 
in  fuch  a  country  is  a  ft  range  r  ;  fhe  zan- 
ders up  and  down  like  a  houfelefs  pilgrim, 
not  having  where  to  lay  her  head  ;  and  if 
ihe  chaiice  to  flray  into  fome  lo-vly  cot- 
tig",  (he  is  driven  out  with  unrelenting 
fury,  by  fome  loyal  brute  or  other,  in  the 
pen  on  ;f  a  a  ignorant,  hot-headed  magif- 
trite,  or  a  bigotted  Mtolerant  f>ric  lv !  Thus 
perfccuted  and  thus  driven  from  all  foci- 
e:y,  ihe  droops  her  head  in  piteo'is  Li;i- 
gii'iliment,  yet  ftill  ftrug.:;les  againrt:  the 
oppoiing  tide,  each  itruggle  fainter  than, 
the  former,  and  her  fate  itill  tumbling  in 
the  balance,  till  at  kill  fhe  is  over- 
whelmed at  once  by  the  flrong  arm  of 
^ower,  and  plunged  into  the  pitchy  fhades 
of  everlalling  night  ! 

Tyrant.     For  examples  look  into  hiflo- 
ry,  no  matter  of  what  country  ! 
U. 

Ubiquity.  It  is  curious  to  hear  pr lefts 
talk  ot  the  ubiquity  of  the  Deity,  and  yec 
at  the  fame  time  furiouily  deny  his  mate+ 
rial  exigence.  What  is  this  in  fact  but 
denying  his  exiflence  at  all  ?  For  if  the 
Deuy  is  fpirit,  the  Deity  is  nothing,  or  a. 


38'2  P    I    0    O    T    T'S 

non-entity  ;  lor  a  fpirit  is  nothing  which 
can  either  be  delcribed  cr  pencilled. 
Therefore  there  is  no  God  (according  to 
theii  dogmas)  unlefs  it  can  be  fuppofed 
thcie  is  an  immaterial ••  fomeihing  heating 
siv-ut,  \\hich  hov. ever  occupies  no  (pace,, 
.  o  |  aits,  no  fchdity,  extenilcr.,  DCT 
an>  c.her  picperties  ol  matter,  ard  >ct 
this  nothing  is  fomething,  and  pcflefies 
volition  re  leal  a6.ion.  Priefis  only  make 
this  probKm;  they  alone  can  fclve  it. 
lio-.vcvcr,  the)  may  reafon  away  anydiffi- 
ci'lt'es  ci  this  kinc  ;  they  can  never  with 
any  iacc,  deny  that  there  is  in  England  an 
i4ii»iuiy  of  priefrs  who  cringe,  fawn  and 
tyrannize  ;  chat  there  is  an  ubiquity  of  fpie& 
a-nd  infoimers,  \\ho  live  by  caUin.ny  and 
perjury  ;  an  uliquity  of  loyal  magiftrate| 
v,  no  fu^  port  them  ;  and  laltly,  an  uHquity 
of  trcak-ry  gold  \vhich  fupports  them  all. 
UtH^iqi'eralle.  The  human  mind.  In 
fpite  oi  the  tyranny  and  intolerance  of 
kings  and  prieits,  in  fpite  of  the  internal 
machinations  and  combinations  of  crown- 
ed conipirators^  if  a  great  and  mighty  na- 
tion wills  only  to  be  free,  ilie  niuil  be 
iree  in  ipite  cf  all  earthly  interference, 
France  laid,  Let  there  be  freedom,,  and 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.    183 

there  was  freedom  !  And  I  hope  to  God 
that  liberty  there  is  uriconyttefafk. 

Uncrown.  What  a  pity  it  is  that  kings 
never  coniider  that  reafon  and  juftice  can 
as  well  co-operate  to  uncrown  them,  as 
well  as  ignorance,  \veaknefs  and  credulity 
<lid  to  crown  them. 

Unciiw  Extreme.  In  the  Popifn  or  Ro- 
mi  Hi  or  .Zfa^y-Ionifli  Church,  this  is  trie  ce- 
remony of  daubing,  with  1m feed  or  lamp- 
oil  (1  don't  know  which)  the  body  of  a 
dying  Roimn  Catholic.  It  however  is  of 
life,  as  it  ferves  very  well  as  bajiing  before 
they  are  roaft?dt  which  is  what  Divines 
call  "  kingdom  come." 

Uncultivated.  One  third  part  of  Eng- 
iand.  Huzza  !  Long  live  poverty  a  ad 
mifery  1  Huzza !  Church  and  King  for- 
ever ! 

Unenvied*  The  virtues  of  the  king,  the 
morality  of  the  Lords,  and  the  indepen- 
dence of  the  Commons  ;  the  humanity  of 
.the  Biihops,  the  impartiality  of  the  Judges, 
and  the  learning  of  the  C.lergy  ;  the  ge- 
nerality of  the  Queen,  the  oeconomy  of 
the  Prince  of  Wales,  and  the  courage  of 
the  Duke  of  York  !  Honi  foit  qui  n.al  y 
penfe. 

L2 


184  PIGOTT'S 

Unhan*?d.  Pitt,  Loughborough,  Wind- 
harn,  and  a  long  et  caerera  ;  and  yet  they 
are  all,  and  every  of  them,  what  me 
Fic.ich  call,  cc  vrai  pbier  du  potence." 

Un'werfity.  A  place  where  ignorance 
is  iaii-'b'.  This  is  abfolutely  the  cafe  at 
Ox  fora  a  ;d  Cambridge,  \vhere  you  may 
fee  monks, Tcnfual,  beaftly,  lioggifh  monks, 
\vrappedupin  all  the  ignorance,  as  well 
as  the  fuperiliCious  garb,  of  the  9th  centu- 
ry !  Hcu  !  n-.erninifle  dolor  ! 

Unking.  An  European  cuftom,  murh 
pradiiea  tov-.ards  the  clofe  of  the  i8th 
century. 

Unlightened.  As  yet  the  torch  of  intole- 
.  e  and  the  funeral  p. le  of  periecution, 
the  pneiis  arc  high  bufy  in  getting 
tne  fag-ots  ready.  Bigotted  pnef>s  !  take 
care  what  you  are  after,  for  the  lame  de- 
vouring flame  that  is  kindled  fora  heretic 
v.  ,;i  con  fume  a  biiliop  ! 

U"-'prifiLfly.  Any  action  that  is  perform- 
ed irom  motives  of  benevolence  and  hu- 
manity. 

Un/a  table.  The  thirft  of  feme  princes 
aftei  <f  Id  and  human  blood. 

L  /  ;d.  The  freedom  of  the  people, 
a;ia  uic  members  of  the  two  houies  !  I ! 


APOLITICAL     DICTIONARY.        ig-J 

\Jnfuccefsful  War!  Nothing  demon- 
fbrates  to  me  To  much  the  incivifm,  and 
the  fordid  weaknefs  of  men,  as  ap- 
plying the  epithetic  term  of  unfuccefs- 
fid.  to  the  war,  by  way  of  argument 
againft  the  principles  of  it.  What,  have 
.government  nothing  to  do  with  moral 'ty 
or  juftic^  ?  Unfufcefsful !  Is  that  all  that  can 
br  faid  againft  a  war  which  had  for  its  j.rjl 
object,  the  extermination  of  a  oreat  and 
noble  minded  people  ?  A  war  which  was 
begun  in  iniquity  aad  blood  thill,  car- 
ri.d  oa  with  true,  favage,  and  Chnftiaru 
like  ardor,  and  will  be  ended  v.  ith  true 
Chriff  ian  chanty,  viz.  when  all  ovr  re- 
fources  are  dried  up  by  this  raging, 
parched  fever,  and  the  fold ier«  are  fick  of 
blood.  Woe  be  to  him  in  whofe  dark  a^d 
iang-uinary  mind  this  cruel  war  was  fir  ft 
projeded  !  But  the  age  of  delufion  is  notyef 
gone  !  Man  is  vet  contented  to  forge  his  own 
letters,  by  way  of  getting  a  livtlihocd  ! 

Unthrone.     An  obieletc  \\ord  which  is 
getting  into  ufe  again. 

Uproar.  This  is  a  Dutch  word,  and  ifDu- 
mourier  had  not  been  a  traitor,  the  Dutch 
by  this  time  would  have  given  us  an  appli- 
cation for  this  term.  But  perhaps 
$us  erit  quando, 


186  P    I    G    O    T    T  '  S 

Ufurpin*  Powers.  Ruflii,  PruflTa, 
&c.  who  under  t<:e  fubterfugal  pretence 
of  preferving  peace,  good  order  and  good 
government  in  the  kingdom  of  Poland,, 
have  from  time  to  time,  with  unhallowed 
hands  aad  unblufhing  hearts,  f'eizcd  upon 
the  beft  and  mod  valuable  part  of  the 
King's  domains,  and  are  even  now,  like 
an  equinoctial  tide,  rapidly  encroaching 
on  and  overwhelming  the  whole  fi.rtace  of 
the  country. 

v. 

Vacation-.     I.     In   the   U  ilverfities,,  is 
that  interval   of  Icifure,    a  hen  thole    Vo- 
luptuaries the  Heads  and  Tutors  of   Col- 
leges indulge  themfclves  in  trie  excefs  of 
every  lenfual  and  beaflly  enjoyment. 

II.  Among  lawyers,  is  that  period  when, 
if  you  take  a  walk  in  the  temple,  you  may 
fee  clouds  of  needy  Barriiters  pacing  up 
and  down  with  a  coloured  COSLI  and  waifl- 
coat  and  black  rufty  breeches  and  flock- 
ings.  This  is  both  their  Lent>  and  bor- 


rowing time. 


III.  In  the  fenate,  although  there  is 
and  mult  be  (o  much  important  bufinefs 
to  tranfadt,  yet  the  vacation  with  them  is 
eight  or  nine  months  in  the  year.  I  uon- 
der  much  that  King  Pitt  docs  not  vote  the 


POLITICAL    DICTIONARY.        187 

Parliaments  ufelefs  at  once.  And  yet 
thefe  doughty  Patriots,  thefe  wife  men  of 
Gotham,  have  the  impudence  and  effron- 
tery to  call  therrfelvcs  Kriends  to  the  Peo- 
ple, and  men — men  v\ho  confult  the  wel- 
fare and  happinefsof  the  poor.and  the  na- 
tion at  larg !  ! 

Vaffal.  In  Poland  the  pe  irants  are  all 
vaflals  at  this  prefem  day,  and  in  England 
the  effence  and  fpiritof  vafialage  is  kept 
up,  although  the  name  of  it  be  abolimed. 
But  if  the  nation  v.  ills  it,  I  fay,  long  live 
the  Feudal  f)ftem  !  ! 

Vendible.  A  feat  in  the  Houfe  of  Com- 
mons, which  is  as  marketable  a  commo- 
dity as  a  pig  or  a  goofe,  through  the  me- 
dium of  venal  and  corrupt  boroughs.  T'  e 
prefent  price  is  about  4,000  guineas,  ^  Iv.ch 
is  much  more  than  given  under  fort,  er 
adminifTrations  ;  but  Pitt,  as  Mr.  Drake 
lays,  is  an  immaculate  and  hciven-bora 
Minifter. 

Vicar.  A  prieft  who  gets  a  good  fat  bene- 
fice by  deluding  the  People,  ancl  teaching 
them  to  look  upon  the  King  and  the  Clerg/ 
ns  objeds  of  infallibility,  awe  and  adora- 

• 

'cf*GBitii(£?far.     In  our  monkifh  Uni- 
^  f : e  i  ;,h is  is  a  man,  /^  c>:nd  only   in  mi- 


1 88  PIGOTT'S 

quity,  who  takes  cae  that  the  ftudents 
fhali  be  io  involved  in  mathematics  and 
divinity  that  they  can  find  no  time  to  in- 
vefligate  fubjeclsof  greater  import.  And 
if  any  of  the  gownimc-n  fh(.uid  be  found 
out  in  reading  politics  or  polemics,  to  dif- 
countenance,  or  get  a  grace  to  expel  him, 
becaufe  fuch  irreverent  arrogances,  as 
Kenyon,  would  fay,  is  contra  bonos  mores  ! 

Vict-^rent.  In  clays  of  yore,  the  Monks* 
alias  Priefts,  would  ttll  you,  under  pain 
of  the  faggot  if  you  denied  it,  that  they 
were  God's  Vice-gt  rents.  In  modern  days,, 
nay  even  now,  they  would  enforce  the 
fame,  but they  dare  not. 

Kce-Rpy.  In  Ireland  this  is  an  Englifh 
nobleman  fent  over  there  by  our  monarch 
to  play  the  king.  A  country  at  the  fame 
time  remarkable  for  the  fervile  venality  of 
the  nobles,  and  the  noble  fpirit  of  the 
People! 

Village.  Is  a  collection  of  two  or  three 
miferable  huts,  whofc  wretched  inhabi- 
tants can  but  juft  keep  their  clay  in  an  ani- 
mated ftate,  by  the  fcanty  pittance  of 
the  coarfelt  and  moil  unautri'tive  diet. — 
However  fmall  the  village  is,  one  locuft  of 
fociety  at  lealt  you  are  lure  of  meeting, 
and  one  tcnipk  of  Ignorance  at  leuit  you 


POLITICAL     DICTIONARY.     189 

ire  certain,  erects  it  griily  and  monkiih  head 
above  the  woods  and  plantations  of  the  fquire,  in 
which  temple  the  name  of  the  God  of  Peace  is 
invoked  again  and  ag;.in  to  go  forth  with  "  our 
*<  fleets  and  armies,"  and  to  "  give  us  the  power 
tl  over  our  enemies"  by  their  deitru6tion.  Oh 
God  !  Oh  God  !  Is  this  humanity  r  But  hold  rr,y 
impious  tongue — it  is  Chriitian  Charity. 

Violet.  "  The  king  is  but  a  man,  the  violet 
"  fmelis  to  me  as  it  does  to  him."  Shakefpeare 
had  no  proof  in  his  time  that  kings  were  men, 
and  in  obedience  to  the  doctrine  that  they  go- 
vern jurediv.ino,  I  mould  really  think  that  no 
legal  king  i?  human,  but  jult  the  contrary,  /«/;«- 
man  by  their  very  office. 

Volunteer.  A  l^yal  fubject  and  king's-man, 
•who  enters  into  a  focicty  of  armed  men  toopp°fe 
'by  force  of  arms  any  reform,  or  attempt  to  a  in- 
form of  the  reprefentation  of  the  People  in  Par- 
liament, and  further,  to  be  ready  at  any  riot  to  pull 
down  the  houfes  of  all  Jacobins  and  DMentcrs, 
\vhoeither  oppofe  our  holy  Religion,  or  our  holy 
political  Inftitution  which  they  callz  Government. 

Vulgar.     The  ariltocratic  epithet  given  to  the 
mod  ufeful)  the  molt  indultrious,    and   the  molt 
valuable  part  of  the  community. 
W. 

Wafer.     Myftical  pafte,  which,  among  the  Ro- 
maiiifts,  is  changed  by  that  arch-conjuror  of   all 
conjurors,  the  pneft,  into  the  r^/body  of  Chriff, 
and  given  to  that  deluded  mafs   of  mankind,  un- 
it ijJeaamJ  with  that  irnprefficn  ia   one  of 


P    I    G    O    T    T  *  S 

their  commimuns,  called  the  Eucharift.  "  Oh  ! 
muii,   man  i  have  y>u  eyes  r" 

JVar.  Of  all  things  in  this  world,  it  fec-Tis 
to  me  nv>ft  itrange,that  men,  large  parties  of  men, 
perfectly  iudiiTerent  to,  and  ignorant  of  the  me- 
rits of  the  difpute,  mould  voluntarily  enter  into 
the  fervice  of  a  fanguinary  tyrant,  and,  as  far  as 
in  them  lay,  to  maifacre  and  deftroy  their  fellow- 
creatures  who  are  oppofed  to  them,  and  who  are 
as  innocent  and  as  ignorant  as  they,  of  the  whole 
fubjecl:  and  occaiion  of  quarrel.  Is  it  that  the 
found  of  fife  and  drum,  the  trumpet  and  bugle- 
h'.-rn,  cr  any  o'hrr  martial  mufic,  poffeifelh  fiKh 
a  favage  charm  r  I  am  a  man,  but  it  has  no  fuch 
an  effect  on  me.  Is  it  that  the  garnifh  fplendor 
of  a  camp,  the  emblematic  veil  merit  of  the  fol- 
dier,  the  glittering  of  arms,  the  roar  of  cannon, 
the  difplay  of  gaudy  colours,  or  any  other  military 
trappings,  po  fiefs  fuch  a  favage  charm  ?  I  am  a 
man,  but  they  have  no  fuch  effect  on  me.  Is  it 
that  the  leifurable,  eaf.riul  lii'e  of  the  mili:  ^ry,  the 
mi:dnefs  of  their  difcipline,  or  the  profligate  diiTo- 
4f'j  'ciucfs  of  their  maiiKers,  poifeiTeth  fuch  a  favage 
ch-:r;n  r  I  am  a  man,  but  i  confefs  thefe  things 
h.-venofuch  effect  on  me.  Or,  is  it  that  thefe 
men  are  fbfta rifts,  and  have  doctrines,  creeds, 
and  opinions  peculiar  to  tMernfelves  ;  that  love 
Tvrar,  bipod  hjJ  and  rapine,  and  intejnecioain  the 
abitra^l  r  I  ^rn  a  man  fubjecl  to  frailty  in  com- 
mon with  other  men,  but  I  could  never  yetcon- 
viocc  niyfJ.r,  that  the  deilruclion  of  the  human 
fpccies  was  a  lovely  n:id  defirable  occupation,  fr» 
that  a  man  could  liitlcfsly  enter  into  it,  as  iato  a 


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trade,  by  way  of  getting  a  livelihood.  Whence 
then  this  fond  defire,  this  msdnefs  after  {laugh- 
ter r  Is  it  any  confoktion  or  folace  when  wound- 
ed, to  fee  your  enemy  by  your  fide  extended  breath- 
lefs  on  ihe  plain  r  Oh  foldiers,  foldiers  !  lay  not 
the  flattering  unclion  to  your  fouls,  that  you  are 
herots !  You  are  nothing  but  murderers  ;  butchers. 
When  you  btgan  to  be  foldiers,  you  ceafed  to  be 
r  en  !  Do  you  delight  in  blood,  and  in  the  fweet 
ti;i:ciul  groans  cfr  dying  animals?  fet  up  the 
trade,  of  butchers  at  once  ;  there  muft  be  fuch 
men  in  civilized  fociety.  But  do  not  murder 
rran  tor  gold.  If  ye  are  foldiers,  ye  cannot  be 
virtuous  men.  Ton  are  more  abandoned  and  de- 
praved even  than  the  priefts.  Let  them  then 
gain  the  fummit  of  their  wifhes  and  their  ambi- 
tion, viz. the  afcendant  in  human  depravity,  the 
acme  of  human  wickedncfs,  the  climax  ot  mor- 
tal guilt.  Bow  to  them  with  humility,  leave  to 
them  the  crimfon  palm,  they  are  your  fuperiors 
in  invention,  and  would  be  in  aftion  if  they  dared  ! 
Still  I  am  bewildered  ho\v  to  account  for  this 
univerfal  and  brutal  rage  for  mailacre,  which 
feems  to  have  ftagnated  and  paliied  every  human 
fentiment,  and  flopped  at  once  all.the  noble  work- 
ings of  nature  which  ones  glowed  in  your  bofoms  ! 
I  have  only  one  way  more  to  account  for  your  un- 
juftifiable  dereliction  from  all  principle  of  virtue, 
only  one  caufe  more  that  could  pofTibly  induce 
you  to  fuch  a  dreadful  effect,  and  that  caufe 
is,  want.  If  this  be  the  caufe  of  your  join- 
ing a  lawlefs  band  of  hired  aflaflins,  then  you  are 
from  a  load  of  guilt  ;  fR'i  however 


P    I     G    O    T    T'S 

bunhened  with  a  load  of  remaining  guilt,  for  you 
cannot  be  viituous  if  you  are  foldiers.  It  is  then 
to  you,  O  iniquitous  Governments  !  that  man- 
kind is  indebted  for  this  awful  calamity  !  .  You 
ftnrve  your  people,  and  then  the  loud  calls  of  na- 
ture force  them  into  a  compliance  and  concur- 
rence with  you  in  plunder  and  murder!  You 
takeaway  their  earnings,  and  deftroy  their  com- 
merce, and  then  inlift  them  under  your  bloody 
banners!  You  depopulate  the  world,  and  then 
hie  to  your  corrupted  churches,  to  pay  yourfllthy 
adoration  to  an  all-benevolent  God,  to  thank  him 
for  what  he  has  done,  as  if  he  was  a  cruel  and 
vindi&ive  being  like  yourfelves  !  Why  don't  you 
ordain  your  prieits  to  drink  hot  blood  at  the  al- 
tar, and  devour  hu-nan  carcafes^Jby  way  of  cele- 
brating the  Lord's  fupper  f'  You  will  want  but 
little  of  imagination  then  to  believe  in  tranfub- 
fhntiation  !  They'll  do't  if  you  order  them.  It 
\vill  infpire  your  troops  with  the  true  blood- 
hound vigour  ;  and  you  may  then,  with  fomc 
~ 


"  Cry  havoc  and  let  flip  the  dogs  of  War." 
JVeal.  The  common  weal,  the  public  weal, 
the  general  weal,  fo  much  regarded  in  Saxon  an- 
tiquity, is  now  out  of  date,  and  fneered  at  by 
our  legillators  ;  in  fo  much,  that  if  a  man  talks 
of  the  public  weal,  he  is  a  viiionary  ;  and  if  he 
bynclions,  drives  to  promote  the  general  weal, 
he  is  a  rebel,  and  a  leveller  ;  fo  changed  are  the 
times,  fo  -perverted  is  the  reafon  of  man,  and  fo 
abje£t  his  {iibtniilion  topriclts,  and  the  "  Vo.-vcrs 
"'  ;> 


POLITICAL      DICTIONARY.     193 

W-M.  Although  it  is  as  perceptible  as  the 
rneridu.i  fin,  that  in  England  the  riches  of  the 
country  are  merging  in  the  h.inds  of  one  order  of 
men,  yef,  in  fpire  Jt  the  alarming  increafe  r*f  the 
poor,  and  the  fynchronqus  decline  of  manufac- 
ture*** and  manuia&urers,  that  loyal  fool  John 
Bull  is  made  to  believe  that  the  country  was  ne- 
.ver  fo  rich,  and  commerce  never  fo  thriving  !  If 
a  people  will  fuffer  oppreilion  to  trcfpafs  on  their 
conampn -rights,  which  even  brutes  enjoy  unmj- 
leited,  they  defer  ve  it. 

Werner.  L~t  the  mod  unfeeling,  the  rmfl 
hardened,  the  moll  cruel  and  inflexible  of  our 
fhtefmen,  (I  don't  know  which  to  ch  :ofe,  Wii»d- 
ham  or  his  mafter  Pitt,  for  they  are  both  fuper- 
lativei'}  pay  a  vifit  to  any  of  our  manufaclurin^ 
towns,  where  this  ufcful  clafs  of  c'rizens,  once 
were  feen  with  btify  faces,  carrying  their  looms- 
work  home  to  their  employers  ;  it  matters  not 
where,  whether  at  Manchester,  Norwich,  Leed?, 
Halifax,  or  any  other  manufacturing  town,  ftili 
it  is  the  fame  ;  nothing  but  mifery  and  wretched- 
nefs  ;  he  will  do  well  to  avoid  Rumbling  over  fhut- 
tles,  weavers'  beams,  looms,  and  every  other? 
the  implements  of  a  loft  occupation  !  Let  this 
man  Windham,  if  he  be  really  a  man,  lift  up 
the  latchet  of  the  door  of  one  of  the  thoufands  of 
miferable  huts  which  abound  in  every  one  of 
titolSt  fburljbing  towns.  After  fatiating  his  glad- 
dened eyes  with  the  mifery  before  him — after 
glut1  ing  hisr.ivi(hed  fight,  in  the  voluptuous  lux- 
ury of  beholding  wretchednefs  in  its  maxi  runn  ; 
U't  him  thus  addrcfs  th«  ftarvin 


P    I    G    O    T    T  *  S 

re  language   of  his  heart — "  You 

"  :  i^cticus    i-.nd   difcontentied  fellows, 

t:  iv;  :>!u  "\;,   c'T'pU-iir.ing — ntvjr    fati.*-fkd. 

ou  art  as  well  off  as  you  deferve  to  be  ;    there 

tl  aly  ays  rri-il   be  poor    people  in    all  countries, 

11  L  ;  cl  i>r;.{uli:cnce  ha.s  ft le died  you    to  be   of  the 

"  nurrLbfcj  •  thtr.  i^re  it  b  in  -pious  as  v,  ell  as  di£- 

"  'oyal  toiri.n   ur.      I4'  it  be  true,  that    you   can 

r»n  work,  and  are  itarvirig,  go  to  the  work- 

//  t  a; .  cl:.     ThiF  is  that  h^ppy  ar  d  er  viable  (late, 

h  but  fr  w  can  ci  :- \  iM  v>,  i.ked  and  unpiinci- 

]  \  '  -rts.      I  kfow  net  how  cr  why  it  is, 

Li,t  I'pr-p  turr.ingto  the  page  of  hiflrry  for  a  tew 

back,  I   find  a  grtai  many  evili    that  date 

.  chr  nology  from  the  year  1760.  and  this  evii, 
c :  myiiad,  that  tvvo^thirds  of  our  yoi;  h 
sr«-  in  ;-  itate  oi  celibacy  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine* 
1  •  e  d  not  here  (I'a^e  to  the  philcfopher,  that  go- 
vern^-ent  njuit  of  nectffity  be  the.root  of  this  evil. 
Under  a  ire  -re  p:rfc6t  inftitution  of  government, 
the  human  rr  n'e  and  female  would  enter  upon  the 
]<;:ppyilate  or  wedlock  at  iixteen  and  fourteen. 
A  £-00 J  king  would  encpurage  early  marriage-;  .a 
v. 'ii.-k-i!  lang  will  difcourage  it,  by  wars,  which 

•'.•{.liui  a  people,  arid  by  the  natural  prohibi- 
tion ofi.,  by  rreansot  heavy  burthens,  luxuries, 
a-»d  b,  -curbing  the  natural  noble  fpiritof  the  pe.o- 

by  unequal  iinpcil-",  partial  laws,  interdic- 
tions,  and  reftraints.  What  is  the  confequence  ? 
Juiiives  the  women  toproflitution,  and  the  men 
10  i he  mod  abandoned  and  avowed  concubinage. 
Tlas  indiscriminate  commerce  entails  on  them  dif- 


POLITICAL      DICTIONARY.      195 

eafe,  fordidrtefs,  and  n:i(Vry.  1  hey  arc  luni.d 
to  an  early  grave,  v  ith  a  ten  1  Ir.fs  <t  conttiiuiion 
many  year*  previ  HJS  to  th«  ir  diiloluiion,  v.  iih  a 
total  iofs  like  wife  of  virtue  and  morality. 

Wbr'g.     A  pcrfon  who  prefers  the  it  fluence  of 
the  Houfe  of   Hanover  to    the  prerogative  «-i  the 
S.uarts.      I  am   an  enerry  to  both  ;    l,i?t    ii    we 
mi!  ft  languiih  under  one  or    the  other,  I    v.  ouid, 
"without  heiitation,  prefer  the    pren-gauve  at'  »rie 
Stuarts,  and   lor  this  re  HI";  in — v\htre    prerogative 
ij    the    defence   and  juftiJicaticn  of  an   a  i  horary 
act,  all  the  odium  which  fuch  an  acl:  wc.uid*.. 
4S  attached  to  the  king  hin.f ..-'i  ;  \v-hcre::=.  wica 
titi- lame  arbi  rary  ad  i?  induced,  thuuJvJ'i  i\.e- 
'd'tim  of   influence,  the  rdiun;  rcit^   01.   1^0  OIK  i,i 
par'.i^ular.      If  cur  parli^;   ei    ,  i   r  i;.it?.rc« 
to  vote  the  fulpenfonoi  the  H-.bta?  C   ; 
(not  tha'.  I  :tii.k  the  p,-op:ewiii  d  fufrei  i    - 
v.-ould  be   tfFecltdby    irhu.ncx,  but   ihe    o< 
c^.rJd  not  be  petibnally  ai  p. ltd,    as  i  o  <,i,t  < 
tell  v.  ho   vot<  •    mm    ii  iiutnee,    aid  v\ho  ti.-in 
erroneous  conviction.        A.  d    in-  »   e 

penp^e  have  the  ili^.\v,  \^c  fir.tic>n,  ot  a  i   ;  u  i 
tion,Jt  would  therefore  be,   ola.Liib'y,  or  yi-t .'.'.-.  t« 
be,  the  People's  own  a£L 

fndcw-mttker.  A  crowned  man  whom  I  cculd 
name,  is  C.'/v /?<v  /  iacpe  ! 

W'jelff.fk.  In  ihc  Houfe  oi  Lordc,  ihe  feat  of 
the  Ji.:d.. ts.  Ar-cr  a  long  refearch  I  h ;•><:•  ;;t 
lcr.->  h  afcertalned the  meaning  ot  ibis  cvuou  It 
is  o  rtr*  ir.d  ihem  r.i  fhc.ir  duly  to  their  f  vert  it.  n, 
viz.  that  they  ihculd  do  all  in  their  power  to  kicp 
the  Uaple  commodity  ot  the  countiy  under. 


!Cj6  P    I    G    O    T    T  7S 

Workloitfe.  The  abode  of  wretchecrnefs  and; 
defpair,  fiithHy  fitted  up  fur  the  reception  o£ 
dccrepid  old  men  and  women,  orphans  and  wi- 
dows, of  thofe  who  have  been  killed  in  battle,, 
fighting  for  ci  fpouf.n  and  tyranny.  The  poor  are 
firit  deprived  of  all  means  of  fubfiitence  in  the 

.uereial  way,  by  the  deftrucHon  of  trade,  and- 
th«n  thrown  inro  thisfihhy  fLvv,  to  be  eaten  up 
by  vermin,  the  offspring  of  naitintfs  and  a  pu- 
trid atmofphere. 

World.  A  boHe<5Hve  term  ufed  to  fignity  all 
the  nations  of  this  vail  globe.  Here  is  an  im- 
rncnie  field  of  inveftrgation  tor  tlic  p'>i  ofopher. 
It  isflrange, "but  no  !efs  mi;,  thai  all  nations, 
without  any  excepdoo,  are  fubjc-61  to  and  the 
fL-ves  of,  fore  error  cr  fuperiii.ion  whkh  is  the 
fundamental  of  u:ihappii;i.f  to  the  people.  Ex- 
perience, knowledge,  l.iilcry,  in  v;-in  tff  -rd  them 
leilbns,  what  p,iths  to  follow,  what  to  (him. 

ted  by  the  warring;  padions,  and  flupified  by 
their  lr,7c  of  fenfudlity,  they  ruQi  on  headlong 
into  the  abyfs  of  ^icc  and  folly,  and  think  to  ex- 
tii  ate  themf  Ives  from  thefe  piitalls  by  heaping 

.-  upon  cri  :ne,  lill  they  fird  therrifelres  even 
\vish  (he  reil  of  theworM.  The  grand  and  ilead- 
i  ;t  nei  lies  ro  the  hr.ppinefs  of  ir^nkind,  are  re- 
J:  :  *r  nd government.  Thefirltisthe  offrpring 
of  fear  ;  the  latter,  the  child  of  d-pravry  ;  and 
ere  notforthe  intervention  of  prieft-  and  y- 
rant«,  mankind  would  ftill  have  had  to  b'efs  tl^e 
halcyon  d.  ::;ural  government  and  a  natural 

r  ;i   i  >n.     I,  is  worthy  of  remark,  that  a  Hand     i 
Vt   ^;uth  is  creeled,  by  every  little  tyrant,  i 


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little  ft,te,  and  though  truth  is  imrrutable,  fhe  is 
a  very  Proteus  divcrfifyir.g  and  variegating  her 
fnowy  garb  in  every  foil,  in  every  climate, 
among  every  trib.,  ai.d  in  every  age.  What  is  a 
virtue  in  one  country,  is  a  crime  in  another  ; 
•what  is  truth  in  one,  is  falfehood  in  the  next ; 
v  h:.r  is  juitice  here,  is  injuflice  there  ;  what  u  i- 
li-y  here,  injury  there  -,  \\hat  laudable  here,  cul- 
pable there.  .  Thus  the  axe  and  the  halter,  the 
rack  and  the  wheel  \  the  tag-got  and  the  crucifix 
are  the  infallible  urrpircs,  the  unerring  oracles,  the 
unchangeable  ftandaids  of  truth,  the  grand  de- 
tern  incrs  of  right  and  wrong  !  Treafon  and 
inuvriiy,  religion  and  fu.pentition,  reafon  and 
error  go  hand  in  hand  in  the  world,  and  the  ty- 
rant and  the  prkft  ot  every  pi.hul  territory  ar- 
bitrarily decide  i-ylcw,  which  is  truth  and  which 
is  error.  "  Oh  i  world,  thy  flippcry  turns  1" 

Wrongs,  Public.  It  all  the  wrongs  that  exift 
in  this  world  under  different  governments  were 
to  be  written  dowrn>  the  whole  earth,  to  ufe  the 
language  of  fcripture,  "  would  not  be  able  to 
"  contain  the  books  that  might  be  written."  As  a 
fpecimcn  ot  fuch  a  vaft  voluminous  work,  it 
would  take  to  record  the  public  wrongs  of  Eng- 
land, more  than  ten  hundred  thoufand  millions 
of  folio  volumes,  fmall  print  and  no  margin  ! 

Take.  Of  flavery,  is  what  men  of  all  nations 
bend  their  necks  to  with  cheerful  fubmifiivenefs, 
and  to  fuch  things,  that  lap-dogs  would  not  fub- 
mit  to,  but  con  tern  ptuou  fly  wag  their  tails  at. 
State  ministers  and  church  miniflers  are  yoke- 
mailers  to  the  whole  of  the  civilized  world,  and 


198  P    I    0    O    T    T  '  S 

man  i«  nAw  fo  -iccu  I  ;med,  f>  wedded  to  it,  that 
he  would  ibii  k  hi  -  (elf  robbed  of  his  rights,  if 
d;piived  oi  i'.  Y^.r  after  year,  d  \y  at'cr  d<y,  he 
renevv?  his  toil  for  others  to  enj  ^y  the  iVe.ts  of 
that  labour,  and  ^oes  as  mechanically  to  i1  as  the 
ox  to  the  p'ou_h,  and  fuceee<fing  generations 
cl.  in  i  he  vvkeasan  herdihary  priviie  e. 

Tenth.  Ir  i-  miuh  to  b.  'a-neii'cd  (hit  more  at- 
tention is  not  p  i;l  to  ^hc  cdu  a  i  >n  of  y  >irh. 
Thofe  whoi.i  The  vvan^  of  li^e  .tre  counting  on  the 
joys  of  hcr.-iftcr,  ^h  nild'conltderit  one  of  the  firll 
of  dtries  to  warn  the  rring  ^en^ra^ion  againit  their 
thcughtlefs  prodigality  or  rime,  hat  greateft  of 
e  rthty  ir^afurts.  lr  lialt  ihat  wide  lapfe  of  dme, 
•vvhicii  at  once  confuxes  itfelf  and  the  health  of  ihs 
body  i.i  exce'.fiis  went  fpent  in  the  improvement  oi 
the  miiid,  vvhai  a  wond-  rrul  change,  what  a  revo- 
lution would  be  produced  :  kings  would  not  then  *y- 
rannize  over  ti'uir  lubjecl  >,  and  b :  idolized  tor  it  ; 
mr  would  piiclt"  plunge  the  bulk  of  mankind  in 
cLrknef"  and  i  ?noranice,  and  be  revered  for  it  i  Our 
Univerrnies  are  nothing  but  monkeries,  where  real 
knowledge  is  trodden  und.:r  ihe  hoofs  of  an  aifem- 
b^.ge  of  ignorant,  fupenli  ious,  bigotted,  intolerant 
fri/.rs.  a-.d  where  the  p  uua!  knowledge  of  word-  is. 
prererred  tothe  knowledge  of  things,  and  of  mea 
ar=d  manners!  '"T  is  ignorance  that  is  the  tyrant  !. 
5Tis  ignorance  that  is  the  prieft!  'Tis  igm/rai-cc-. 
th-it  lights  the  torch  of  intolerance,  that  ians  t--e; 
fi  rue  of  the  faggot  !  becaufe  it  is  fwiaiih,  fottiili>, 
ignorance  that  fuifers  it  ! 

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